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• The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a center-right Washington, D.C.-based think tank that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare.
AEI is an independent nonprofit organization supported primarily by contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals.
Founded in 1938, AEI is commonly associated with conservatism and neoconservatism but does not support political candidates.
AEI advocates in favor of private enterprise, limited government, and democratic capitalism.
AEI is governed by a 28-member Board of Trustees, composed of executives and former executives from various corporations.
Approximately 185 authors are associated with AEI.
Arthur C. Brooks served as president of AEI from January 2009 through July 1, 2019. He was succeeded by Robert Doar.
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POLITICAL STANCE AND IMPACT.
The institute is a right-leaning counterpart to the left-leaning Brookings Institution, however, the two entities have often collaborated.
From 1998 to 2008, they co-sponsored the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, and in 2006 they launched the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.
In 2015, a working group consisting of members from both institutions coauthored a report entitled Opportunity, Responsibility, and Security: A Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty and Restoring the American Dream.
AEI is the most prominent think tank associated with American neoconservatism, in both the domestic and international policy arenas.
Irving Kristol, widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of neoconservatism, was a senior fellow at AEI (arriving from the Congress for Cultural Freedom following the revelation of that group's CIA funding) and many prominent neoconservatives - including Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ben Wattenberg, and Joshua Muravchik - spent the bulk of their careers at AEI.
According to the 2011 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), AEI is number 17 in the "Top Thirty Worldwide Think Tanks" and number 10 in the "Top Fifty United States Think Tanks".
As of 2019, the American Enterprise Institute also leads in YouTube subscribers among free-market groups.
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PERSONNEL.
AEI's officers include Robert Doar, Danielle Pletka, Yuval Levin, Michael R. Strain, and Ryan Streeter.
AEI has a Council of Academic Advisers, which includes Alan J. Auerbach, Eliot A. Cohen, Eugene Fama, Aaron Friedberg, Robert P. George, Eric A. Hanushek, Walter Russell Mead, Mark V. Pauly, R. Glenn Hubbard, Sam Peltzman, Harvey S. Rosen, Jeremy A. Rabkin, and Richard Zeckhauser.
The Council of Academic Advisers selects the annual winner of the Irving Kristol Award.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
AEI's board is chaired by Daniel A. D'Aniello.
Current notable trustees include: { • Former vice president Dick Cheney; • John V. Faraci, chairman and CEO of International Paper; • Harlan Crow, chairman and CEO of Crow Holdings, the Trammell Crow family's investment company; • Christopher Galvin, former CEO and chairman of Motorola; • Harvey Golub, retired chairman and CEO of the American Express Company; • Bruce Kovner, chairman of Caxton Alternative Associates (and a former chairman of AEI); • Edward B. Rust Jr., chairman and CEO of State Farm (and also a former AEI chairman); • Cliff Asness, hedge fund manager and the co-founder of AQR Capital Management; • Pete Coors, vice chairman of the board of Molson Coors Brewing Company; • Ravenel B. Curry III, president of Eagle Capital Management; • Dick DeVos, president of the Windquest Group; • Tully Friedman, chairman and CEO of Friedman Fleischer & Lowe; • Robert F. Greenhill, founder and chairman of Greenhill & Co.; • Frank Hanna III, CEO of Hanna Capital; • John A. Luke Jr., chairman and CEO of MeadWestvaco; • Kevin Rollins, former president and CEO of Dell; • Matthew K. Rose, executive chairman of BNSF Railway; and, • Mel Sembler, chairman emeritus of the Sembler Company.
} RESEARCH PROGRAMS.
AEI's research is divided into seven broad categories: economic policy studies, foreign and defense policy studies, health care policy studies, political and public opinion studies, social and cultural studies, education, and poverty studies.
Until 2008, AEI's work was divided into economics, foreign policy, and politics and social policy.
AEI research is presented at conferences and meetings, in peer-reviewed journals and publications on the institute's website, and through testimony before and consultations with government panels.
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Joe Biden has nominated right-wing think tank fellow Andrew Biggs (Andrew G. Biggs) to the Social Security Advisory Board.
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