ALEX & LENA CASPER MEMORIAL LECTURE

Wednesday
April 11, 2007
7:30 p.m.

Miami University Middletown
NEW Campus and Community Center

Free and open to the public.

Featuring
Norman J. Ornstein

NORMAN J. ORNSTEIN BIO

Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He also serves as an election analyst for CBS News and 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, and regularly appears on television programs like The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose.

He serves as senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission, working to ensure that our institutions of government can be maintained in the event of a terrorist attack on Washington; his efforts in this area are recounted in a profile of him in the June 2003 Atlantic Monthly.

His campaign finance working group of scholars and practitioners helped shape the major law, known as McCain/Feingold, that 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 is also co-directing a multi-year effort, called the Transition to Governing Project, to create a better climate for governing in the era of the permanent campaign.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Campaign Legal Center and of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Since 1987 he has been a senior advisor to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press as well as a member of the Board of Contributors for USA TODAY. From 1987 to 1990 was a member of the board of the National Commission on Public Service (Volcker Commission).

He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

Books by Norman Ornstein

The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (2006) with Thomas E. Mann

Lessons and Legacies: Farewell Addresses from the Senate (2002) with D. David Eisenhower

The Permanent Campaign and Its Future (2000) edited with Thomas E. Mann

Campaign Finance: An Illustrated Guide (1997) with Jeremy C. Pope

Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy (1995) edited with Thomas E. Mann

Congress, the Press, and the Public (1994) with Thomas E. Mann

Interest Groups: Lobbying and Policymaking (2 nd edition, 1994) with Shirley Elder

Political Power and Social Change: The United States Faces a United Europe (1991) edited with Mark Perlman

President and Congress: Assessing Reagan's First Year (1982)

The Role of the Legislature in Western Democracies (1981)

Changing Congress: The Committee System (1974)with Richard D. Lambert