Thomas E. Mann
Thomas E. Mann
Thomas E. Mannis the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States, campaign finance reform, Senate and filibuster reform, Congress, redistricting, and political polarization...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth10 September 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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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 provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.
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Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.
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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.
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It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
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With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.
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While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.
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Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
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For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
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Beer soothes the upset soul.
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Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.
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Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.
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Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).
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Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.