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American Enterprise Institute
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The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative think tank, founded in 1943. It is associated with neoconservative domestic and foreign policy views. According to the institute its mission is "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism — limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate." AEI is an independent, non-profit organization. It is supported primarily by grants and contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals. It is located in Washington, D.C.
AEI has emerged as one of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy. More than twenty AEI alumni and current visiting scholars and fellows have served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions. Former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz is a visiting scholar, and Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a senior fellow.
Political stanceAEI is often cited as a right-leaning counterpart to the left-leaning Brookings Institution.
In 1998, AEI and Brookings established the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies.
In 2006, the two organizations jointly launched the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.
AEI has connections with the neoconservative movement in American politics.
Irving Kristol, widely regarded as the movement's founder, is a Senior Fellow at AEI.
Officers and trusteesAEI's officers are Christopher DeMuth, president; David Gerson, executive vice president; Jason Bertsch, vice president for marketing; Henry Olsen, vice president and director of the National Research Initiative; and Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies. On January 1, 2009, Arthur C. Brooks will succeed DeMuth as the eleventh president of AEI.
Its board is chaired by Bruce Kovner. Current notable trustees include Gordon Binder, John V. Faraci, Christopher Galvin, Raymond Gilmartin, Harvey Golub, Roger Hertog, Robert Pritzker, Lee Raymond, Kevin Rollins, Edward B. Rust Jr., and James Q. Wilson.
AEI has a Council of Academic Advisers, chaired by James Q. Wilson, which includes Martin Feldstein, Gertrude Himmelfarb, R. Glenn Hubbard, Samuel P. Huntington, William M. Landes, Sam Peltzman, George L. Priest, Jeremy A. Rabkin, Murray L. Weidenbaum, and Richard J. Zeckhauser.
Scholars and fellowsAEI lists their scholars and fellows on their web site. Some prominent current AEI scholars and fellows include:
- Michael Barone, coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics
- John R. Bolton, former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
- Arthur C. Brooks, visiting scholar and author of Gross National Happiness
- Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, AEI senior fellow.
- Ted Frank, director of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest
- David Frum, an author and former speechwriter for Bush, is a resident fellow.
- David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale University; a victim of the Unabomber.
- Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow. He is the director of the Project for the New American Century's Middle East Initiative and a former Middle East specialist at the CIA.
- Newt Gingrich, member of the Republican Party and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives between 1995 and 1999, is a senior fellow at AEI focusing on health care (he has founded the Center for Health Transformation), information technology, the military, and politics.
- Scott Gottlieb, former Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs at the Food & Drug Administration
- Michael S. Greve, founder of the Center for Individual Rights, is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI.
- Kevin Hassett, economic adviser to George W. Bush and John McCain during their presidential campaigns
- Steven Hayward is a resident scholar.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a fellow, is a former Dutch politician, women's rights activist and critic of Islamism & Shar'ia Law.
- Leon Kass, former chairman, President's Council on Bioethics
- Frederick Kagan is a military historian and signatory of Project for the New American Century manifesto titled (2000) along with his brother Robert (co-founder of the PNAC) and his father and fellow neo-conservative, Donald Kagan.
- Irving Kristol
- Michael Ledeen was previously involved in the transfer of arms to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair — an adventure that he documented in his book, Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair.
- Lawrence Lindsey
- Gregory Mankiw
- Allan Meltzer is one of the foremost academics studying monetary policy and the Federal Reserve Bank. He, along with economist Milton Friedman, pioneered monetarism, the now widely accepted theory that inflation is entirely the result of the growth of the money supply. Meltzer is currently working on the second volume of his History of the Federal Reserve.
- Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar. He researches Middle East politics, democracy, neoconservatism and the history of socialism.
- Charles Murray, an influential policy writer and a researcher, is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom. He is best known for his work in welfare reform and as the co-author of the controversial 1994 book, The Bell Curve.
- Michael Novak is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy and Public Policy and Director of Social and Political Studies at the institute. He has written extensively about the role of faith in government.
- Norman Ornstein has been a Congressional analyst and political commentator for more than thirty five years.
- Richard Perle served on the United States Defense Policy Board and is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense.
- Danielle Pletka, Vice President, her research areas include the Middle East
- Sally Satel is a psychiatrist and author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine.
- Christina Hoff Sommers is a critic of the feminist movement. She is the author of Who Stole Feminism and The War Against Boys.
- Peter Wallison was general counsel of the United States Department of the Treasury and counsel to president Ronald Reagan
- Ben Wattenberg, a speechwriter for President Lyndon B. Johnson, is a senior fellow.
- Paul Wolfowitz (Visiting Scholar), A "major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and, within the [George W. Bush] Administration, its most passionate and compelling advocate."
- John Yoo, formerly of the Office of Legal Counsel, and a professor at Boalt Hall, is a visiting scholar.
Former scholars- Robert Bork, former resident fellow, Supreme Court nominee
- Jeffrey Gedmin, former resident scholar and Executive Director of AEI’s New Atlantic Initiative, current President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
- James K. Glassman, under secretary of state for public diplomacy and founder of TCSDaily.com, was a senior fellow until 2008.
- Alan Keyes, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, is a former AEI resident scholar.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick was the former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was an AEI senior fellow until she died in 2006.
- Fred Thompson, Television and film actor, currently appearing on the television show Law & Order, former U.S. Senator, and former Republican presidential primary candidate, was a visiting fellow.
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