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The
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a
Conservatism in the United States think tank, founded in 1943. According to the institute its mission "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of
United States Freedom (political) and democratic capitalism — limited
government,
Private sector, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and Foreign policy, political
accountability, and open
debate." "AEI - About AEI", "The American Enterprise Institute", Retrieved April 8, 2007. AEI is an independent,
non-profit organization. It is supported primarily by grants and contributions from
Foundation (charity),
corporations, and individuals.
AEI has emerged as one of the leading architects of the second George W. Bush's public policy. "Conservative Anger Grows Over Bush's Foreign Policy", "Washington Post" Edition, Retrieved April 9, 2006. 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.George W. Bush, Speech to AEI, 26 Feb 2003 Former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz is a
visiting scholar, and Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney and former chairman of the
National Endowment for the Humanities, is a senior fellow. "Scholars and Fellows by Name",
American Enterprise Institute, retrieved July 5, 2007.
Political stance
AEI is often cited as a Centre-right counterpart to the
Centre-left Brookings Institution. An insider's guide to the upcoming week April 30, 2007Dana Milbank, “White House Hopes Gas Up A Think Tank: For Center-Right AEI, Bush Means Business,” Washington Post, December 8, 2000, p. A39In 1998, AEI and
Brookings Institution established the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. "AEI-Brooking - About Us", "AEI-Brookings Joint Center", retrieved April 8, 2006.In 2006, the two organizations jointly launched the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project. "AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project"
AEI has connections with the neoconservative movement in American politics. Battle of the Washington think tanks 3 April, 2003
Irving Kristol, widely regarded as the movement's founder, is a Senior Fellow at AEI.
President and trustees
- Christopher DeMuth, who served in the Ronald Reagan administration, Appointment of Christopher C. DeMuth as Administrator for Information and Regulatory Affairs and as Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief September 30th, 1981 has been president of AEI since 1986.
- Bruce Kovner is the chairman of the board of trustees.
- Lee Raymond, ex-CEO of ExxonMobil, is the vice chair of AEI's board of trustees.
Current members of the board are:
Gordon Binder, Harlan Crow,
Chris DeMuth,
Morton Fleischer, Chris Galvin, Raymond Gilmartin, Harvey Golub, Robert Greenhill, Roger Hertog, Martin Koffel, John Luke (businessman), Ben Lytle, Alex Mandl, Robert Pritzker, Joe Ricketts, Kevin Rollins,
John W. Rowe,
Edward Rust, William Stavropoulos,
Wilson Taylor, Marilyn Ware, and James Q. Wilson.
Emeritus trustees of the organization are: Willard Butcher,
Richard Madden, Robert Malott,
Paul McCracken, Paul Oreffice, and Henry Wendt.
Scholars and fellows
AEI lists their scholars and fellows on their web site. Scholars and Fellows Some prominent current or former AEI scholars and fellows include the following:
- John R. Bolton, former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
- Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, AEI senior fellow.
- Ted Frank, serves on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society's Litigation Practice Group
- David Frum, an author and former speechwriter for George W. Bush, is a resident fellow.
- 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 United States 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.
- James K. Glassman, author of Dow 36,000, is a resident fellow.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a former The Netherlands politician, women's rights activist and critic of Islamism & Shar'ia Law.
- Frederick Kagan is a military historian and signatory of Project for the New American Century manifesto titled Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000) along with his brother Robert (co-founder of the PNAC) and his father and fellow neo-conservative, Donald Kagan.
- Alan Keyes, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, was an 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.
- 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.
- 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 (author), an influential policy writer and a researcher, is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom. He is best known 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 United States 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.
- Fred Thompson, Television and film actor, currently appearing on the television show Law & Order, former U.S. Senator, and current Republican presidential primary candidate, is a visiting fellow.
- 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 War policy and, within the W. Bush Presidency of George W. Bush#Administration and Cabinet, its most passionate and compelling advocate." "The Believer: Paul Wolfowitz defends his war." Peter J. Boyer, The New Yorker November 1, 2004 retrieved 4 July 2004
- John Yoo, formerly of the Office of Legal Counsel, and a professor at Boalt Hall, is a visiting scholar.
Global warming
In February 2007, a number of sources, including the British newspaper
The Guardian reported that the AEI had sent letters to scientists, offering US$10,000 plus travel expenses and additional payments, asking them to critique a consensus report on global warming by the UN's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The letters alleged that the IPCC was "resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent and prone to summary conclusions that are poorly supported by the analytical work" and asked for essays that "thoughtfully explore the limitations of climate model outputs."{{cite news| title = AEI Critiques of Warming Questioned: Think Tank Defends Money Offers to Challenge Climate Report| url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/04/AR2007020401213.html| publisher = The Washington Post-->{{cite web | last = American Enterprise Institute
|title = Untitled letter | publisher = ThinkProgress
| url = http://websrvr80il.audiovideoweb.com/il80web20037/ThinkProgress/2007/aeiletter.pdf|accessdate = 2007-02-04--> According to the ''Guardian'' article, the AEI received $1.6 million in funding from [ExxonMobil. The article further notes that former ExxonMobil CEO [Lee R. Raymond is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees.
The Guardian article has been rebutted both by AEI "Climate Controversy and AEI: Facts and Fictions", "American Enterprise Institute Online", Retrieved April 9, 2006 and in an editorial in the
Wall Street Journal. "Global Warming Smear" The rebuttals claimed factual errors, distortions and extreme lack of balance, noting the ExxonMobil funding was spread out over a ten-year period and totaled less than 1% of AEI's budget. The Wall Street Journal column stated "AEI doesn't lobby, didn't offer money to scientists to question global warming, and the money it did pay for climate research didn't come from Exxon."
AEI scholars deny that the organization is skeptical about global warming. Criticizing the story as part of a "climate inquisition" published in "the left-wing press", the scholars wrote in the
The Weekly Standard:t has never been true that we ignore mainstream science; and anyone who reads AEI publications closely can see that we are not "skeptics" about warming. It is possible to accept the general consensus about the existence of global warming while having valid questions about the extent of warming, the consequences of warming, and the appropriate responses. In particular, one can remain a policy skeptic, which is where we are today, along with nearly all economists.
Funding
AEI has received more than $30 million (combined) in funding from sources including:
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
- Castle Rock Foundation
- Coors Brewing Company
- Earhart Foundation
- ExxonMobil
- JM Foundation
- Microsoft
- Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
- John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) List of RBF Grantees
- Sarah Scaife Foundation
- Scaife Family Foundation
- Smith Richardson Foundation
References
External links
- Official Website.
- The American print magazine. Formerly The American Enterprise (TAE) magazine
- Benjamin Wallace-Wells, "In the Tank: The intellectual decline of AEI", Washington Monthly, December 2003
- Christopher DeMuth, "Think-Tank Confidential: What I learned during two decades as head of America's most influential policy shop", OpinionJournal.com, October 11, 2007
The
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a
Conservatism in the United States think tank, founded in 1943. According to the institute its mission "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of
United States Freedom (political) and democratic capitalism — limited
government, Private sector, individual
liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and Foreign policy, political
accountability, and open debate." "AEI - About AEI", "The American Enterprise Institute", Retrieved April 8, 2007. AEI is an independent,
non-profit organization. It is supported primarily by grants and contributions from Foundation (charity), corporations, and individuals.
AEI has emerged as one of the leading architects of the second
George W. Bush's public policy. "Conservative Anger Grows Over Bush's Foreign Policy", "Washington Post" Edition, Retrieved April 9, 2006. 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.George W. Bush, Speech to AEI, 26 Feb 2003 Former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz is a visiting scholar, and Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President of the United States
Dick Cheney and former chairman of the
National Endowment for the Humanities, is a senior fellow. "Scholars and Fellows by Name",
American Enterprise Institute, retrieved July 5, 2007.
Political stance
AEI is often cited as a
Centre-right counterpart to the Centre-left Brookings Institution. An insider's guide to the upcoming week April 30, 2007Dana Milbank, “White House Hopes Gas Up A Think Tank: For Center-Right AEI, Bush Means Business,” Washington Post, December 8, 2000, p. A39In 1998, AEI and Brookings Institution established the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. "AEI-Brooking - About Us", "AEI-Brookings Joint Center", retrieved April 8, 2006.In 2006, the two organizations jointly launched the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project. "AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project"
AEI has connections with the neoconservative movement in American politics. Battle of the Washington think tanks 3 April, 2003Irving Kristol, widely regarded as the movement's founder, is a Senior Fellow at AEI.
President and trustees
- Christopher DeMuth, who served in the Ronald Reagan administration, Appointment of Christopher C. DeMuth as Administrator for Information and Regulatory Affairs and as Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief September 30th, 1981 has been president of AEI since 1986.
- Bruce Kovner is the chairman of the board of trustees.
- Lee Raymond, ex-CEO of ExxonMobil, is the vice chair of AEI's board of trustees.
Current members of the board are:
Gordon Binder, Harlan Crow,
Chris DeMuth, Morton Fleischer, Chris Galvin,
Raymond Gilmartin, Harvey Golub, Robert Greenhill,
Roger Hertog,
Martin Koffel, John Luke (businessman), Ben Lytle, Alex Mandl,
Robert Pritzker,
Joe Ricketts, Kevin Rollins, John W. Rowe,
Edward Rust, William Stavropoulos,
Wilson Taylor,
Marilyn Ware, and James Q. Wilson.
Emeritus trustees of the organization are: Willard Butcher,
Richard Madden,
Robert Malott, Paul McCracken, Paul Oreffice, and
Henry Wendt.
Scholars and fellows
AEI lists their scholars and fellows on their web site. Scholars and Fellows Some prominent current or former AEI scholars and fellows include the following:
- John R. Bolton, former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
- Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, AEI senior fellow.
- Ted Frank, serves on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society's Litigation Practice Group
- David Frum, an author and former speechwriter for George W. Bush, is a resident fellow.
- 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 United States 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.
- James K. Glassman, author of Dow 36,000, is a resident fellow.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a former The Netherlands politician, women's rights activist and critic of Islamism & Shar'ia Law.
- Frederick Kagan is a military historian and signatory of Project for the New American Century manifesto titled Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000) along with his brother Robert (co-founder of the PNAC) and his father and fellow neo-conservative, Donald Kagan.
- Alan Keyes, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, was an 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.
- 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.
- 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 (author), an influential policy writer and a researcher, is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom. He is best known 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 United States 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.
- Fred Thompson, Television and film actor, currently appearing on the television show Law & Order, former U.S. Senator, and current Republican presidential primary candidate, is a visiting fellow.
- 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 War policy and, within the W. Bush Presidency of George W. Bush#Administration and Cabinet, its most passionate and compelling advocate." "The Believer: Paul Wolfowitz defends his war." Peter J. Boyer, The New Yorker November 1, 2004 retrieved 4 July 2004
- John Yoo, formerly of the Office of Legal Counsel, and a professor at Boalt Hall, is a visiting scholar.
Global warming
In February 2007, a number of sources, including the British newspaper
The Guardian reported that the AEI had sent letters to scientists, offering US$10,000 plus travel expenses and additional payments, asking them to critique a consensus report on global warming by the UN's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The letters alleged that the IPCC was "resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent and prone to summary conclusions that are poorly supported by the analytical work" and asked for essays that "thoughtfully explore the limitations of climate model outputs."{{cite news| title = AEI Critiques of Warming Questioned: Think Tank Defends Money Offers to Challenge Climate Report| url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/04/AR2007020401213.html| publisher = The Washington Post-->{{cite web | last = American Enterprise Institute
|title = Untitled letter | publisher = ThinkProgress
| url = http://websrvr80il.audiovideoweb.com/il80web20037/ThinkProgress/2007/aeiletter.pdf|accessdate = 2007-02-04--> According to the ''Guardian'' article, the AEI received $1.6 million in funding from [ExxonMobil. The article further notes that former ExxonMobil CEO [Lee R. Raymond is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees.
The Guardian article has been rebutted both by AEI "Climate Controversy and AEI: Facts and Fictions", "American Enterprise Institute Online", Retrieved April 9, 2006 and in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. "Global Warming Smear" The rebuttals claimed factual errors, distortions and extreme lack of balance, noting the ExxonMobil funding was spread out over a ten-year period and totaled less than 1% of AEI's budget. The Wall Street Journal column stated "AEI doesn't lobby, didn't offer money to scientists to question global warming, and the money it did pay for climate research didn't come from Exxon."
AEI scholars deny that the organization is skeptical about global warming. Criticizing the story as part of a "climate inquisition" published in "the left-wing press", the scholars wrote in the
The Weekly Standard:t has never been true that we ignore mainstream science; and anyone who reads AEI publications closely can see that we are not "skeptics" about warming. It is possible to accept the general consensus about the existence of global warming while having valid questions about the extent of warming, the consequences of warming, and the appropriate responses. In particular, one can remain a policy skeptic, which is where we are today, along with nearly all economists.
Funding
AEI has received more than $30 million (combined) in funding from sources including:
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
- Castle Rock Foundation
- Coors Brewing Company
- Earhart Foundation
- ExxonMobil
- JM Foundation
- Microsoft
- Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
- John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) List of RBF Grantees
- Sarah Scaife Foundation
- Scaife Family Foundation
- Smith Richardson Foundation
References
External links
- Official Website.
- The American print magazine. Formerly The American Enterprise (TAE) magazine
- Benjamin Wallace-Wells, "In the Tank: The intellectual decline of AEI", Washington Monthly, December 2003
- Christopher DeMuth, "Think-Tank Confidential: What I learned during two decades as head of America's most influential policy shop", OpinionJournal.com, October 11, 2007
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