Brook Manville

Over his career Brook Manville has held leadership positions in multiple sectors and organizations. First trained as an academic historian, he subsequently worked in media, technology, consulting and non-profit organizations. Today he writes and advises about democracy, strategy and organizational topics.

Brook writes regularly on Substack, connecting and extending findings of his Civic Bargain book to contemporary politics and issues of democratic renewal.

Brook’s recent book is a historical analysis of western civilization’s great democracies and the sources of their resilience –the maintenance of the fundamental agreement among citizens to govern themselves as free equals. Co-authored with Josiah Ober of Stanford, The Civic Bargain was named a “Best Book in 2023” by The New Yorker magazine.