Thomas E. Mann

Thomas Edward Mann (born September 10, 1944 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American political scientist . His research at the Brookings Institution mainly for the US election system , in particular for the financing of election campaigns . Darrell M. West called Mann the "King of Experts" because of his numerous appearances on CNN and in renowned newspapers such as the Washington Post .

Mann received a BA in Political Science from the University of Florida in 1966 and an MA and Ph.D. in 1968 and 1977, respectively. at the University of Michigan . In 1969 he came to Washington, DC for the first time as a Congressional Fellow , where he worked for Senator Philip Hart and MP James G. O'Hara . Mann was the executive director of the American Political Science Association . From 1987 to 1999 he was Head of Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution . In 2009 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne . He has also held other teaching positions at Princeton University , Johns Hopkins University , Georgetown University , University of Virginia and American University .

Mann is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation . He has two children and lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife .

Works

• Unsafe at Any Margin: Interpreting Congressional Elections (1978)
• Media Polls in American Politics , ed. With Gary R. Orren (1992)
• Renewing Congress , with Norman J. Ornstein (1992, 1993)
• Values ​​and Public Policy , ed. With Henry Jacob Aaron and Timothy Taylor (1994)
• Congress, the Press, and the Public , ed. With Norman J. Ornstein (1994)
• Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy , ed. With Norman J. Ornstein (1995)
• Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook , with Anthony Corrado , Daniel R. Ortiz , Trevor Potter and Frank J. Sorauf , eds. (1997)
• Vital Statistics on Congress, 1999–2000 , with Norman J. Ornstein and Michael Malbin (1999)
• The Permanent Campaign and Its Future , ed. With Norman J. Ornstein (2000)
• Governance for a New Century: Japanese Challenges, American Experience , ed. With Sasaki Takeshi
• Vital Statistics on Congress , with Norman J. Ornstein and Michael J. Malbin (2002)
• Inside the Campaign Finance Battle: Court Testimony on the New Reforms , ed. With Anthony Corrado and Trevor Potter (2003)
• The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook , ed. With Anthony Corrado , Daniel R. Ortiz and Trevor Potter (2003)
• with Norman J. Ornstein : The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track . OUP, 2006.
• with Norman J. Ornstein: It's Even Worse Than It Looks : How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism . Basic Books, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-465-03133-7 .

Web links

• Thomas Mann at Brookings
• with Norman J. Ornstein: When Congress Checks Out . In: Foreign Affairs . 2006.
• Video of a conversation with Lawrence Lessig on Bloggingheads.tv

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.apsanet.org/content_64317.cfm
2. ↑ http://thefutureofamericandemocracyfoundation.org/ABio.html#TMBio
3. ↑ http://www.nndb.com/people/011/000129621/