William A. Galston writes the weekly Politics & Concepts column within the Wall Avenue Journal. He holds the Ezra Okay. Zilkha Chair within the Brookings Establishment’s Governance Research Program, the place he serves as a senior fellow. Earlier than becoming a member of Brookings in January 2006, he was Saul Stern Professor and Appearing Dean on the College of Public Coverage, College of Maryland, director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Coverage, founding director of the Middle for Info and Analysis on Civic Studying and Engagement (CIRCLE), and government director of the Nationwide Fee on Civic Renewal. A participant in six presidential campaigns, he served from 1993 to 1995 as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Home Coverage.
Mr. Galston is the writer of 10 books and greater than 100 articles within the fields of political concept, public coverage, and American politics. His most up-to-date books are The Follow of Liberal Pluralism (Cambridge, 2004), Public Issues (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), and Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Risk to Liberal Democracy (Yale, 2018). A winner of the American Political Science Affiliation’s Hubert H. Humphrey Award, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.
