Thomas E. Mann

Thomas E. Mann ( born September 10, 1944 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American political scientist. His research at the Brookings Institution mainly to the U.S. electoral system, in particular the financing of election campaigns. Darrell M. West man called the "King of the experts" because of its numerous appearances on CNN and in prominent newspapers like the Washington Post.

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

Man 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 with his wife in Bethesda (Maryland).

Works

  • Media Polls in American Politics, ed by Gary R. Orren (1992 )
  • Renewing Congress, with Norman J. Ornstein (1992, 1993)
  • Values ​​and Public Policy, ed with Henry J. Aaron and Timothy Taylor ( 1994)
  • Congress, the Press, and the Public, ed by Norman J. Ornstein (1994 )
  • Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy, ed by Norman J. Ornstein (1995 )
  • Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook, with Anthony Corrado, Daniel Ortiz, Trevor Potter and Frank J. Sorauf, ed (1997)
  • Vital Statistics on Congress, 1999-2000, with Norman J. Ornstein and Michael Malbin (1999)
  • The Permanent Campaign and Its Future, ed by Norman J. Ornstein (2000)
  • Governance for a New Century: Japanese Challenges, American Experience, ed with Takeshi Sasaki
  • 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 Ortiz, and Trevor Potter (2003)
  • Norman J. Ornstein with: The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track. OUP, 2006.
  • Norman J. Ornstein with: 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, LCCN 2012-376454.
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