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Institutions University of Texas, Austin 1973-1980, 1981-1984Yale University 1980-1981John Anderson presidential campaign, 1980Walter Mondale 1984 campaignRoosevelt Center for American Policy Studies 1985-1988University of Maryland 1988-Progressive Policy Institute 1989-Democratic Leadership Council 1989Bill Clinton campaign 1992Bill Clinton White House 1993-1995National Commission on Civic Renewal 1995 or 1996Brookings Institution 1 Jan 2006-present Alma mater Cornell B.A. (1967)Chicago M.A. 1969 Ph.D. 1973 Influences Allan BloomJoseph Cropsey Notable awards 2004 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences2006 Hubert H. Humphrey Award, APSA Influenced by Isaiah Berlin, Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, Joseph Cropsey Books Liberal pluralism, Liberal purposes, The practice of liberal plu, Public Matters: Politics - P, Rural development in the Uni Similar People Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, Joseph Cropsey, Harvey Mansfield, Thomas Pangle |
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William Galston (born January 17, 1946) holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He joined the Brookings Institution on January 1, 2006. Formerly the Saul Stern Professor and Dean at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Dr. Galston specializes in issues of American public philosophy and political institutions.
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He was deputy assistant for domestic policy to U.S. President Bill Clinton (January 1993-May 1995). He has also been employed by the presidential campaigns of Al Gore (1988, 2000), Walter Mondale, and John B. Anderson. 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. He was educated at Cornell and the University of Chicago, where he got his Ph.D. He then taught for nearly a decade in the Department of Government at the University of Texas. 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. Galston founded, with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. He was also director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, both located at the University of Maryland.
He has written on questions of political and moral philosophy, American politics and public policy, having produced eight books and more than one hundred articles. His most recent book is Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). 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.
Galston became an op-ed columnist for the Wall Street Journal in 2013. In 2014, he continued public commentary on partisan politics.
Galston supports legally recognizing same-sex marriages.