Thomas E. Mann

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Template:Short description Template:Other people Template:Infobox person Thomas E. Mann (born September 10, 1944) is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution,<ref name="Brookings">Brookings Institution biography Template:Webarchive</ref> a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. He primarily studies and speaks on U.S. elections, campaign finance reform, Senate and filibuster reform, Congress, redistricting, and political polarization.<ref name="Brookings"/>

Biography

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 went to Washington D.C. in 1969, and worked there as a Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Philip A. Hart and Representative James G. O'Hara, both Democrats.

Between 1987 and 1999, he was Director of Governance Studies at Brookings. Before that, Mann was executive director of the American Political Science Association.<ref name="Brookings"/>

In 1989, Mann was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Mann is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Frank J. Goodnow and Charles E. Merriam Awards.<ref name="Brookings"/>

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