Norman Ornstein

Norman J. Ornstein (born October 14, 1948) is a political scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington D.C. conservative think tank. He is the co-author (along with Thomas E. Mann) of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism.

Norman Jay Ornstein was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota on October 14, 1948. His father was a traveling salesman, and the family spent much of Norman's childhood in Canada. A child prodigy, Norman graduated from high school when he was only fourteen, and from college when he was just eighteen. He received his BA from the University of Minnesota, and subsequently received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1974. By the mid-1970s, he had become a professor of Political Science at Catholic University in Washington DC, and was already establishing a reputation as an expert on congress.

Ornstein studies American politics and is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post and many magazines, such as The Atlantic and the National Journal. He wrote a weekly column for Roll Call from 1993 until April 10, 2013, and is currently co-director, along with Thomas E. Mann, of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project. He helped draft key parts of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, also known as the McCain-Feingold Act. Ornstein considers himself a centrist.

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