Quotes by Thomas E. Mann

About Thomas E. Mann:

Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States, campaign finance reform, Senate and filibuster reform, Congress, redistricting, and political polarization.
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Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces...

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Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.

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Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.

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Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

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All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.

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The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might pr...

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I don't believe in a golden mean; I don't believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don't dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that's so ideologically based, that's so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and...

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In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

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Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.

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But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

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First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense o...

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Author Bio

  • NameThomas E. Mann
  • DescriptionAmerican political scientist
  • BornSeptember 10, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitical Scientist; Author