Thomas E. Mann

Thomas E. Mann (born September 10, 1944) is a political scientist, author, and pundit who works at the Brookings Institution. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States, especially campaign finance reform. In "The Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment", Darrell West calls Mann "The king of the pundits", for his numerous appearances on CNN and in prominent newspapers such as the "Washington Post".

He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended the University of Florida, where in 1966 he received a B.A. in political science, then went on to get an M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1977) at the University of Michigan. He first came to Washington D.C. in 1969, where he worked as a Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Philip A. Hart and Representative James G. O'Hara.

Mann is a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation [http://thefutureofamericandemocracyfoundation.org/index.html] , a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/SeriesPage.asp?series=127] , "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy".

Books

* "Unsafe at Any Margin: Interpreting Congressional Elections" (1978)
* "Media Polls in American Politics", co-editor with Gary R. Orren (1992)
* "Renewing Congress", with Norman J. Ornstein (1992, 1993)
* "Values and Public Policy", co-editor with Henry J. Aaron and Timothy Taylor (1994)
* "Congress, the Press, and the Public", co-editor with Norman J. Ornstein (1994)
* "Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy", co-editor with Norman J. Ornstein (1995)
* "Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook", with Anthony Corrado, Daniel 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", co-editor with Norman J. Ornstein (2000)
* "Governance for a New Century: Japanese Challenges, American Experience", co-editor 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", co-editor with Anthony Corrado and Trevor Potter (2003)
* "The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook", co-editor with Anthony Corrado, Daniel Ortiz, and Trevor Potter (2003)
* "The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track" co-authored with Norman J. Ornstein (2006)

External links

* [http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/tmann.htm Thomas Mann page at Brookings]