Our Transition to Governing Project is dedicated to understanding andimproving the transition from campaigning to governing. Started in1998, the project is an American Enterprise Institute project inconjunction with the Brookings Institution and the HooverInstitution funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Norman Ornstein,AEI, and Thomas Mann, Brookings, are codirectors, and John Fortier,AEI, manages the effort. The project has addressed the transition inthree broad areas: (1) facilitation of the transition of a newadministration into office; (2) scholarly analysis of the blurringof the lines between campaigning and governing, sometimes referredto as the “permanent campaign”; (3) improvement of the quality ofthe presidential campaign by focusing media attention on thegoverning qualities of the candidates.