WEBCAST INVITATION
Campbell Public Affairs Institute
The Maxwell School of Syracuse University
State of Democracy Lecture Series
Friday, February 9, 2007
THOMAS MANN, The Brookings Institution
"Will the November Elections Help Mend the Broken Branch?"
WEBCAST 4PM EST
http://www.campbellinstitute.org
An archived version of this webcast will be available after February 19.
Campbell Public Affairs Institute
The Maxwell School of Syracuse University
http://www.campbellinstitute.org
Professor Mary Tschirhart, Director
mtschirh@maxwell.syr.edu
ABOUT THE STATE OF DEMOCRACY LECTURE SERIES
The State of Democracy Lecture Series is dedicated to providing a forum for
meaningful dialogue over public issues that cut across the disciplinary
boundaries of the social sciences.
The series is a centerpiece of the Maxwell School. It enables the
intellectual exploration of current events and issues while fostering
discussion and debate, which is the heart of meaningful democratic
citizenship.
The Speaker series is organized by Professor Suzanne Mettler,
sbmettle@maxwell.syr.edu.
ABOUT THOMAS MANN
Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in
Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. Between 1987 and 1999, he
was Director of Governmental Studies at Brookings. Before that, Mann was
executive director of the American Political Science Association.
Born on September 10, 1944, in Milwaukee, he earned his B.A. in political
science at the University of Florida and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the
University of Michigan. He first came to Washington in 1969 as a
Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Philip A. Hart and
Representative James G. O'Hara.
Mann has taught at Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University,
Georgetown University, the University of Virginia and American University;
conducted polls for congressional candidates; worked as a consultant to IBM
and the Public Broadcasting Service; chaired the Board of Overseers of the
National Election Studies; and served as an expert witness in the
constitutional defense of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. He
lectures frequently in the United States and abroad on American politics and
public policy and is also a regular contributor to newspaper stories and
television and radio programs on politics and governance.
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 Association¹s Frank J. Goodnow and Charles E. Merriam
Awards.
Mann's published works include Unsafe at Any Margin: Interpreting
Congressional Elections; Vital Statistics on Congress; The New Congress; A
Question of Balance: The President, the Congress and Foreign Policy; Media
Polls in American Politics; Renewing Congress; Congress, the Press, and the
Public; Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy; Campaign Finance
Reform: A Sourcebook; The Permanent Campaign and Its Future; Inside the
Campaign Finance Battle: Court Testimony on the New Reforms; The New
Campaign Finance Sourcebook; and Party Lines: Competition, Partisanship and
Congressional Redistricting. He has also written numerous scholarly articles
and opinion pieces on various aspects of American politics, including
elections, political parties, Congress, the presidency and public
policymaking.
He is currently working on projects dealing with redistricting, election
reform, and party polarization. He and Norman Ornstein have just published
The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back on
Track (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Mann resides in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife Sheilah, who is also a
political scientist. They have two children, Ted, an assistant curator at
the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Stephanie, an MBA student in the
Kellogg School at Northwestern University.