Norman J. Ornstein is a political scientist and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative-leaning Washington D.C. thinktank (though Ornstein is generally considered to be a liberal). Ornstein was born in 1948 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.[1] Ornstein is married to Judith L. Harris, a prominent regulation litigation lawyer. He studies American politics and is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post and many magazines. He has written a weekly column in Roll Call since 1993. His greatest political influence may have come in writing substantial portions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, also known as the "McCain-Feingold" campaign finance bill passed in 2002.[2] He is currently co-director, along with Thomas Mann, of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.
Ornstein received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1974.
Advisory boards
Ornstein is a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation[2], a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies[3], "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy". He also serves on the Advisory Board [4] of the Institute for Law and Politics at the University of Minnesota Law School. Ornstein is also a member of the Board of Directors of the nonpartisan election reform group Why Tuesday?.
References
- ^ http://www.slphistory.org/history/ornsteinnorm.asp St. Louis Park Historical Society
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