William Galston
Born	William Arthur Galston (1946-01-17) January 17, 1946 (age 78)
Education	Cornell University (BA) University of Chicago (MA, PhD)
Spouse	Miriam Galston
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William Arthur Galston (/ˈɡɔːlstən/; born January 17, 1946) is an American author, academic, and political advisor,^[4] who holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.^[5][6] 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,^[7] Galston specializes in issues of U.S. public philosophy and political institutions, having joined the Brookings Institution on January 1, 2006.^[6]

He is the son of Yale University plant physiologist Arthur Galston.^[8]

He was deputy assistant for domestic policy to U.S. President Bill Clinton (January 1993 – May 1995).^[1][5][7] He has also been employed by the presidential campaigns of Al Gore (1988, 2000),^[9][10] Walter Mondale,^[10] and John B. Anderson.^[11] 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.^{[citation needed]}

Galston had once served in the United States Marine Corps as a sergeant.^[5] He was educated at Cornell, where he was a member of the Telluride House, and the University of Chicago,^[9] where he got his Ph.D.^[5][9] He then taught for nearly a decade in the Department of Government at the University of Texas.^[5] 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.^[5][7] Galston founded, with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.^[5] He was also director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy,^[5] both located at the University of Maryland.

He has written on questions of political and moral philosophy, U.S. politics and public policy,^[5] having produced eight books and more than one hundred articles.^[7] His most recent book is Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).^[5] 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.^[5]

Galston became an op-ed columnist for the Wall Street Journal in 2013. In 2014, he continued public commentary on partisan politics.^[12][13]

• 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: The Center. LCCN 87072197.
• 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.

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