Board of Directors

Thomas Mann
Brookings Institution Senior Scholar

Thomas Mann is a Senior Fellow of Governance Studies and the W. Averell Harriman Chair at the Brookings Institution. His expertise is in budget politics, campaign finance, congress, congressional reform, elections, political campaigns and parties, politics, polling, presidency, reapportionment and redistricting. His current projects include studying campaign finance reform; campaigning to govern transitions; and election reform. Dr. Mann received his Ph.D. in 1977 and his M.A. in 1968 from the University of Michigan. He received his B.A. from the University of Florida in 1966. Dr. Mann is the previous Director of Governance Studies at Brookings and the former Executive Director of the American Political Science Association. Dr. Mann has written many books, including: The Permanent Campaign and Its Future, co-editor with Norman J. Ornstein (2000); Vital Statistics on Congress, 1999-2000, with Norman J. Ornstein and Michael Malbin (1999); Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook, with Anthony Corrado, Daniel R. Ortiz, Trevor Potter, and Frank J. Sorauf, eds. (1997); Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy, co-editor with Norman J. Ornstein (1995); Congress, the Press, and the Public, co-editor with Norman J. Ornstein (1994); Values and Public Policy, co-editor with Henry J. Aaron and Timothy Taylor (1994); and Renewing Congress, with Norman J. Ornstein (1992, 1993).