American Institutions of Democracy

American Institutions of Democracy

"The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands' American Institituions of Democracy Project works to enhance the public's appreciation of the nature and function of democractic institutions.

"The project focuses on educating people about the history, current state, and challenges facing the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, the press, and the public schools. Commissions of scholars have synthesized what is known about the institutions, identified research priorities, and have disseminated their findings to scholars and the public through volumes published by Oxford University Press."

Advisory Board
Accessed March 2008:


 * Jaroslav Pelikan* - Scholarly Director of the Institutions of Democracy; Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University
 * Arlin Adams - Former Judge for the United State Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Counsel to Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP
 * Nancy Kassebaum Baker - Former United States Senator
 * David Boren - Former United States Senator; President, University of Oklahoma
 * John Brademas - Former United States Representative in Congress from Indiana; President Emeritus of New York University
 * David Gergen - Director of the Center for Public Leadership and Professor of Public Service at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
 * Lee Hamilton - President and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Vice Chair, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
 * Ellen Condliffe Lagemann - Former Director of the Spencer Foundation; Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education
 * John Noonan, Jr. - Judge on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of San Francisco
 * Leon Panetta - Former United States Representative in Congress from California; Co-Director of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy
 * George P. Shultz - Former United States Secretary of State; Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Stanford University

(*Deceased)

Press Commission
Members ref>Press Commission, Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, accessed March 19, 2008.


 * Geneva Overholser, Missouri School of Journalism Washington Bureau (Co-Chair)
 * Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania (Co-Chair)
 * W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington
 * James Carey*, Columbia University
 * John Carey, Fordham Business School; Greystone Communications
 * Timothy E. Cook*, Louisiana State University James Curran, University of London
 * Karen Brown Dunlap, The Poynter Institute
 * Robert Entman, North Carolina State University
 * Herbert Gans, Columbia University
 * Robert Giles, Harvard University
 * Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford University
 * Cynthia Gorney, University of California, Berkeley
 * Doris Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago
 * Marc Gunther, FORTUNE Magazine
 * Daniel Hallin, University of California, San Diego
 * James Hamilton, Duke University
 * Jay Harris, University of Southern California
 * Michael Janeway, Columbia University
 * Alex S. Jones, Harvard University
 * John Keane, University of Westminster
 * Jane Kirtley, University of Minnesota
 * Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center for People and the Press
 * Martha Joynt Kumar, Towson University
 * Thomas Kunkel, University of Maryland; American Journalism Review
 * S. Robert Lichter, George Mason University;Center for Media and Public Affairs; Statistical Assessment Service
 * Maxwell McCombs, University of Texas
 * Nancy Hicks Maynard, Maynard Partners, LLC
 * Philip Meyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 * David T.Z. Mindich, St. Michael's College
 * Pamela Newkirk, New York University
 * Michael Parks, University of Southern California
 * Thomas Patterson, Harvard University
 * Robert Picard, Jönköping University, Sweden
 * Paul Alfred Pratte, Brigham Young University
 * William Prochnau, Vanity Fair
 * James V. Risser, Stanford University
 * Eugene Roberts, University of Maryland, College Park
 * Jay Rosen, New York University
 * Bruce W. Sanford, Baker & Hostetler LLP
 * Orville Schell, University of California, Berkeley
 * Robert Schmuhl, University of Notre Dame
 * Daniel Schorr, National Public Radio
 * Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego
 * Philip Seib, Marquette University
 * William Serrin, New York University
 * Mitchell Stephens, New York University
 * Esther Thorson, University of Missouri,Columbia
 * Susan E. Tifft, Duke University
 * David Weaver, Indiana University, Bloomington
 * Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania

(*Deceased)

Commission on the Role of the Media in American Democracy
Members ref>Commission on the Role of the Media in American Democracy, Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, accessed March 19, 2008.
 * Geneva Overholser, Missouri School of Journalism Washington Bureau (Co-Chair)
 * Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania (Co-Chair)
 * Claude-Jean Bertrand, Institut Francais de Presse of the University of Paris
 * Tom Bettag, ABC News Nightline
 * Leo Bogart*, Presstime; Innovation International Media
 * Merrill Brown, MMB Media LLC
 * James Carey*, Columbia University
 * John Carey, Fordham Business School; Greystone Communications
 * Nicole A. Childers, National Public Radio
 * Sandy Close, New California Media
 * Timothy E. Cook*, Louisiana State University
 * Everette Dennis, Fordham Schools of Business;International Longevity Center-USA
 * William Densmore, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Densmore Associates
 * Karen Brown Dunlap, The Poynter Institute
 * Robert Entman, North Carolina State University
 * Robert Giles, Harvard University
 * Doris Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago
 * James Hamilton, Duke University
 * Jay Harris, University of Southern California
 * Jeff Jarvis, Advance.net
 * Alex Jones, Harvard University
 * Jane Kirtley, University of Minnesota
 * Stephen Lacy, Michigan State University
 * Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin-Madison; American Educational Research Association
 * Craig LaMay, Northwestern University
 * Charles Lewis, Fund for Independence in Journalism
 * Philip Meyer, University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill
 * Dean Mills, University of Missouri-Columbia
 * David T.Z. Mindich, St. Michael's College
 * Lawrence E. Mitchell, George Washington University Law School
 * James M. Naughton, The Poynter Institute
 * Thomas Patterson, Harvard University
 * O. Ricardo Pimentel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
 * Jay Rosen, New York University
 * Abby Scher, Independent Press Association-New York
 * William Siemering, Open Society Institute
 * John Soloski, University of Georgia
 * William M. Sullivan, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
 * Susan E. Tifft, Duke University
 * Judy Woodruff, CNN
 * Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania

(*Deceased)

Executive Branch Commission
"The commission on the executive branch, chaired by Joel Aberbach and Mark Peterson, aimed to provide a sophisticated understanding of the evolution of the presidency and the administrative agencies, an analysis of how this branch works today, and an exploration of proposed reforms for making the executive branch more prepared to meet challenges of the current era. The commission addressed topics including the nature of executive power, the bureaucracy's role in policy decision making and implementation, and the complex relationships between the components of the executive branch and the other institutions of American government.

Members
 * Joel D. Aberbach, University of California, Los Angeles (Co-Chair)
 * Mark A. Peterson, University of California, Los Angeles (Co-Chair)
 * Colin Campbell, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
 * Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University
 * Martha A. Derthick, University of Virginia
 * Matthew J. Dickinson, Middlebury College
 * George C. Edwards III, Texas A&M University
 * James W. Fossett, University at Albany, State University at New York; Rockefeller Institute of Government
 * Thomas L. Gais, Rockefeller Institute of Government
 * Fred I. Greenstein, Princeton University
 * Hugh Heclo, George Mason University
 * Stephen Hess, The Brookings Institution
 * Matthew Holden, University of Virginia
 * Patricia W. Ingraham, Syracuse University
 * Lawrence R. Jacobs, University of Minnesota
 * Scott C. James, University of California, Los Angeles
 * Charles O. Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison; The Brookings Institution
 * Robert A. Katzmann, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
 * Donald F. Kettl, University of Wisconsin-Madison; The Brookings Institution
 * William E. Leuchtenburg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 * R. Shep Melnick, Boston College; Harvard Program on Constitutional Government
 * Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia
 * Richard P. Nathan, Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York,Albany
 * James Pfiffner, George Mason University
 * Richard Rose, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; Oxford Internet Institute
 * Bert Rockman, Ohio State University
 * Andrew Rudalevige, Dickinson College
 * Stephen J. Wayne, Georgetown University
 * Barry R. Weingast, Stanford University;Hoover Institution