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.
James K. Glassman is a resident scholar at AEI and editor in chief and executive publisher of The American magazine. He is cofounder of TechCentralStation.com (now TCSDaily.com), an online journal started in 2000 that focuses on the nexus of science and public policy. For ten years he wrote a syndicated weekly column on investing for the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune. He currently writes a monthly column for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. His opinion pieces appear frequently in the Wall Street Journal and other periodicals. Mr. Glassman was previously editor and co-owner of the daily Congressional newspaper Roll Call, publisher of the New Republic magazine, president of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, and executive vice president of U.S. News and World Report. He was host of two weekly TV programs, Capital Gang Sunday on CNN and TechnoPolitics on PBS, and appears often on cable and broadcast TV programs discussing the economy and markets. He has written two books on investing, most recently The Secret Code of the Superior Investor, which was praised as one of the top ten financial books of the year by Business Week and Barron’s. President George W. Bush named Mr. Glassman to the President’s Commission on the 21st Century Workforce, and he served on the Congressionally mandated Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World. He is a member of the Policy Advisory Board of Intel Corp. and the board of trustees of the U.S. Chamber Foundation, and is a senior advisor to SAP Corp.
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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