Karlyn H. Bowman is a resident fellow at AEI. She joined the Institute in 1979 and was managing editor of Public Opinion magazine until 1990. From 1990 to 1995, she was the editor of The American Enterprise, the Institute’s flagship magazine. In 2002, she inaugurated AEI’s Public Opinion Studies, which include “America after 9/11” and “Attitudes toward Homosexuality and Gay Marriage,” and are available on AEI’s website She contributed a chapter on polling to The Permanent Campaign and Its Future (AEI-Brookings, 2001), and is a contributing author to The Neocon Reader (Grove Press, 2005).

John C. Fortier is a research fellow at AEI. He is senior counselor to the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and executive director of the Continuity of Government Commission, and was previously project manager of the Transition to Governing Project. He is a political scientist who has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware, Boston College, and Harvard University. He is the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles and was the editor of the third edition of After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College (AEI Press, 2004). He coauthored “Presidential Succession and Presidential Leaders,” in Catholic University Law Review (Fall 2004); and “President Bush: Legislative Strategist,” in The Bush Presidency (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). He is a frequent radio and television commentator on the presidency, Congress, and elections.

Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at AEI. In addition to serving as an election analyst for CBS News, he writes a weekly column called “Congress Inside Out” for Roll Call newspaper. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and other major publications. He appears regularly on television programs including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose. He serves as senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission, and is co-director of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project, a collaborative effort to improve federal election administration with regard to the Help America Vote Act. In addition to his work on election administration reform, his campaign finance working group of scholars and practitioners helped shape the major law, known as McCain/Feingold, which reformed the campaign financing system. Legal Times referred to him as “a principal drafter of the law,” and his role in its design and enactment was profiled in the February 2004 issue of Washington Lawyer. He co-directed a multiyear effort called the Transition to Governing Project to create a better climate for governing in the era of the permanent campaign, and is currently co-directing a project on election reform. He is a member of the boards of directors of the Public Broadcasting Service and the Campaign Legal Center, and a member of the board of trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. His many books include The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America (Oxford University Press, 2006) coauthored by Thomas E. Mann.

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