William Galston

William Arthur Galston (/ˈɡɔːlstən/; born January 17, 1946)[6] holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; he joined the think tank on January 1, 2006.[7][8] Formerly the Saul Stern Professor and Dean at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a professor of political science at the University of Texas, Austin,[9] Galston specializes in issues of U.S. public philosophy and political institutions.[8]

William Galston
Galston in 2012
Born	William Arthur Galston (1946-01-17) January 17, 1946
Alma mater	Cornell B.A. (1967) Chicago M.A. 1969 Ph.D. 1973
Awards	2004 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2006 Hubert H. Humphrey Award, APSA
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Texas, Austin 1973–1980, 1981–1984 Yale University 1980–1981 John Anderson presidential campaign, 1980 Walter Mondale 1984 campaign Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies 1985–1988 University of Maryland 1988-present Progressive Policy Institute 1989-present Democratic Leadership Council 1989 Bill Clinton campaign 1992 Bill Clinton White House 1993–1995 National Commission on Civic Renewal 1995 or 1996 Brookings Institution January 1, 2006 – present
Influences	Allan Bloom Joseph Cropsey
Military career
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Marine Corps
Rank	Sergeant
Notes
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Career

He was deputy assistant for domestic policy to U.S. President Bill Clinton (January 1993 – May 1995).[1][7][9] He has also been employed by the presidential campaigns of Al Gore (1988, 2000),[10][11] Walter Mondale,[11] and John B. Anderson.[12] Since 1995, Galston has served as a founding member of the Board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and as chair of the Campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values.

Galston was in the United States Marine Corps, serving as a sergeant.[7] He was educated at Cornell, where he was a member of the Telluride House, and the University of Chicago,[10] where he got his Ph.D.[7][10] He then taught for nearly a decade in the Department of Government at the University of Texas.[7] From 1998 until 2005 he was professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. Later he was executive director for the National Commission on Civic Renewal.[7][9] Galston founded, with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.[7] He was also director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy,[7] both located at the University of Maryland.

He has written on questions of political and moral philosophy, U.S. politics and public policy,[7] having produced eight books and more than one hundred articles.[9] His most recent book is Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).[7] Galston is also a co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can Do About It, published by the Brookings Press.[7]

Galston became an op-ed columnist for the Wall Street Journal in 2013. In 2014, he continued public commentary on partisan politics.[13][14]

Publications

• Galston, William A.; Hoffenberg, Peter H., eds. (2010). Poverty and morality : religious and secular perspectives. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521763745. LCCN 2010030599.
• Galston, William A. (William Arthur) (2005). Public matters : essays on politics, policy and religion. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 0742549798. LCCN 2005008940.
• Galston, William A. (William Arthur) (2005). The practice of liberal pluralism. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521840341. LCCN 2004046567.
• Galston, William A. (William Arthur) (2002). Liberal pluralism : the implications of value pluralism for political theory and practice. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521813042. LCCN 2001043917.
• Galston, William A. (William Arthur) (1995). Rural development in the United States : connecting theory, practice, and possibilities. Karen J. Baehler. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. ISBN 1559633263. LCCN 94041685.
• Chapman, John W.; Galston, William A., eds. (1992). Virtue. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0814714846. LCCN 92017749.
• Galston, William A. (William Arthur) (1991). Liberal purposes : goods, virtues, and diversity in the liberal state. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521410363. LCCN 90025355.
• Rovner, Mark J.; Galston, William A. (1987). One year to go : citizen attitudes in Iowa and New Hampshire : a report on focus groups conducted by the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. Washington, D.C.: The Center. ISBN 0913217093. LCCN 87060758.
• Rovner, Mark J.; Galston, William A. (1987). Southern voices/southern views : a report on focus groups conducted by the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. Washington, DC (316 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 500, Washington 20003): The Center. LCCN 87072197.CS1 maint: location (link)
• Obert, John C.; Galston, William A. (1985). Down-- down-- down-- on the farm : the farm financial crisis, a background paper. Washington, D.C.: Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. ISBN 0913217034. LCCN 85060998.
• Galston, William A. (William Arthur) (1985). A tough row to hoe : the 1985 Farm Bill and beyond. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Press ; Washington, D.C. : Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. ISBN 0819148040. LCCN 85013978.
• Galston, William A. (William Arthur) (1980). Justice and the human good. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226279634. LCCN 79025945.
• Galston, William A. (William Arthur) (1975). Kant and the problem of history. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226280446. LCCN 74011620.
• Galston, William A. (William Arthur) (1973). Kant and the problem of history [microform]. ISBN 0226280446. LCCN 89893118.

References

1. Beem, Christopher (January 1, 2002). "William Galston". In Utter, Glenn H.; Lockhart, Charles (eds.). American Political Scientists: A Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. p. 125. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
2. Warshaw, Shirley Anne (2004). "William A. Glaston". Presidential Profiles: The Clinton Years. Infobase Publishing. p. 129. ISBN 0-8160-5333-2. LCCN 2004040351. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
3. "Dr. William A. Galston". National Endowment for Democracy. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
4. "William A. Galston". Brookings Institution. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
5. "2006 Hubert H. Humphrey Award". American Political Science Association. Retrieved 2014-02-16. This year's award recognizes William A. Galston of the Brookings Institution for his outstanding public service, deep involvement in vital questions of public affairs, and the quality and breadth of his scholarship in political science. The Humphrey Award honors involvement in public affairs. Galston is superbly qualified by his long record of personal involvement in policy making and advocacy. For more than three decades he has actively taken political science and theories about good public policy beyond the academy and into the arenas of national party politics and government at the highest levels in the United States. He has been especially influential in studying, advocating, and promoting the engagement of Americans in multiple dimensions of civic life. His qualifications for the Humphrey Award extend beyond his direct engagement in public affairs. Throughout his career, Galston has sought to revive and exemplify the classical understanding of political science as a practical discipline—one that arises directly out of the characteristic conflicts of political life, takes its bearings from those conflicts, and seeks to provide impartial guidance to statesmen and citizens. Galston has played this role in two ways: On the one hand, he has attempted to demonstrate that liberalism (in the theoretical, not political, sense of term) is theoretically defensible and, indeed, superior to any of the available theoretical alternatives. On the other hand, while acknowledging that theory can never be a substitute for statesmanship, he has attempted to demonstrate, in speech and deed, that what he calls liberal pluralism is the best guide to the great domestic policy debates of our time. As a result, Galston's career is a model of the unity of theory and practice...
6. "Galston, William A. 1946- (William Arthur) [WorldCat Identities]". Retrieved 2014-02-09.
7. "William Galston". Center for International Media Assistance. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
8. "William Galston". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
9. "William A. Galston". Brookings. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
10. "William A. Galston". Brookings. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
11. "William Galston". Retrieved 2013-06-14.
12. "William Galston Oral History, Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy". Retrieved 2017-04-01.
13. Balz, Dan; Rucker, Philip (February 16, 2016). "Democrats' next leaders will grapple with schism". Washington Post. p. A17. William A. Galston of the Brookings Institution said, "It's not just a case of the very rich getting richer. If that were the only thing going on I think we'd be having a very different conversation. It's also a case of the people in the middle at best treading water and in fact doing a little bit worse than that."
14. "William A.Galston - News, Articles, Biography, Photos". WSJ.com. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2014-02-16.

External links

• William Galston on Twitter
• The Brookings Institution profile
• Appearances on C-SPAN