Thomas Mann
Political scientist
Thomas E. Mann 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.
He first went 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, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, “dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy”.
Mann was hosted alongside Norman Ornstein by The Common Good in 2012 to discuss their book It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism.
