Editing American Enterprise Institute (section)

===Political and public opinion studies===
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AEI's "Political Corner"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aei.org/politicalcorner|title=American Enterprise Institute's Political Corner|access-date=June 17, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420061323/http://www.aei.org/politicalcorner|archive-date=April 20, 2009 }}</ref> includes a range of political viewpoints, from the center-left<ref name="OrnsteinNeocon">{{cite news|last=Ornstein|first=Norman J.|author-link=Norman J. Ornstein|date=September 10, 2007|title=My Neocon Problem|magazine=[[The New Republic]]|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/politics/my-neocon-problem|access-date=June 17, 2009|archive-date=May 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502004720/http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/my-neocon-problem|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Clemons|first=Steve|author-link=Steven Clemons|date=August 31, 2007|title=Norm Ornstein's Neocon Problem|periodical=The Washington Note|url=http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002316.php|access-date=June 17, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516180103/http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002316.php |archive-date=May 16, 2008}}</ref> [[Norman J. Ornstein]] to the conservative [[Michael Barone (pundit)|Michael Barone]]. The Political Corner sponsors the biannual Election Watch series,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.aei.org/eventSeries/11 | title=Corporate Cash Balances and Economic Activity | last=Hassett | first=Kevin A. | date=July 11, 2011 | website=American Enterprise Institute | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317031846/http://www.aei.org/eventSeries/11 | archive-date=March 17, 2014 | access-date=October 18, 2018 }}</ref> the "longest-running election program in Washington", featuring Barone, Ornstein, [[Karlyn Bowman]], and—formerly—[[Ben Wattenberg]] and [[Bill Schneider (journalist)|Bill Schneider]], among others.<ref name="AR"/> Ornstein and Fortier (an expert on absentee and early voting<ref>{{cite book|last=Fortier|first=John C.|title=Absentee and Early Voting|publisher=AEI Press|year=2006|location=Washington|url=http://www.aei.org/book/863|access-date=June 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617192244/http://www.aei.org/book/863|archive-date=June 17, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>) collaborate on a number of election- and governance-related projects, including the Election Reform Project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.electionreformproject.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211235108/http://www.electionreformproject.org/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 11, 2009|title=AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project|date=February 11, 2009|access-date=June 10, 2018}}</ref> AEI and Brookings are sponsoring a project on election demographics called "The Future of Red, Blue, and Purple America", co-directed by Bowman and [[Ruy Teixeira]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.aei.org/event/1663 | title=The Future of Red, Blue, and Purple America | date=February 28, 2008 | website=American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704155708/http://www.aei.org/event/1663 | archive-date=July 4, 2009 | access-date=October 18, 2018 }}</ref>

AEI's work on political processes and institutions has been a central part of the institute's research programs since the 1970s. The AEI Press published a series of several dozen volumes in the 1970s and 1980s called "At the Polls"; in each volume, scholars would assess a country's recent presidential or parliamentary election. AEI scholars have been called upon to observe and assess [[Constitutional convention (political meeting)|constitutional conventions]] and elections worldwide. In the early 1980s, AEI scholars were commissioned by the U.S. government to monitor [[plebiscite]]s in [[Palau]], the [[Federated States of Micronesia]], and the [[Marshall Islands]].<ref>American Enterprise Institute, ''Annual Report'', 1982-1983; {{cite book|editor-last=Ranney|editor-first=Austin|editor-link=Austin Ranney|title=Democracy in the Islands: The Micronesian Plebiscites of 1983|publisher=AEI Press|year=1985|location=Washington, DC}}</ref>

Another landmark in AEI's political studies is ''After the People Vote''.<ref>The first two editions (in 1980 and 1992) were edited by [[Walter Berns]]; the 2004 edition was edited by John C. Fortier and included contributions from Berns, [[Norman J. Ornstein]], [[Akhil Amar]], [[Vikram Amar]], and [[Martin Diamond]]. {{cite book |url=http://www.aei.org/book/786 |title=After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College |publisher=AEI Press |year=2004 |editor-last=Fortier |editor-first=John C. |location=Washington |access-date=June 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619133249/http://www.aei.org/book/786 |archive-date=June 19, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> AEI's work on election reform continued into the 1990s and 2000s; Ornstein led a working group that drafted the [[Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ornstein|first1=Norman J.|author-link=Norman J. Ornstein|last2=Carrado|first2=Anthony|date=April 1, 2007|title=Reform That Has Really Paid Off|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=http://www.aei.org/article/25876|access-date=June 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619132854/http://www.aei.org/article/25876|archive-date=June 19, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Richey|first=Warren|date=December 11, 2003|title=Court upholds 'soft money' ban|periodical=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1211/p01s01-usju.html|access-date=June 17, 2009|archive-date=January 7, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107151211/http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1211/p01s01-usju.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

AEI published ''Public Opinion'' magazine from 1978 to 1990 under the editorship of [[Seymour Martin Lipset]] and [[Ben Wattenberg]], assisted by Karlyn Bowman. The institute's work on polling continues with public opinion features in ''[[The American Enterprise]]'' and ''[[The American (magazine)|The American]]'' and Bowman's AEI Studies in Public Opinion.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.aei.org:80/raBasicPages/14?page=AEI+Studies+in+Public+Opinion | title=AEI Studies in Public Opinion | website=American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031054127/http://www.aei.org/raBasicPages/14?page=AEI+Studies+in+Public+Opinion | archive-date=October 31, 2010 | access-date=October 18, 2018 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref>