William Galston

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| birth_name = William Arthur Galston

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|1|17}}

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| education = Cornell University (BA)
University of Chicago (MA, PhD)

| spouse = Miriam Galston

| footnotes = {{cite book |title=American Political Scientists: A Dictionary |page=125 |first=Christopher |last=Beem |chapter=William Galston |editor1-first=Glenn H. |editor1-last=Utter |editor2-first=Charles |editor2-last=Lockhart |publisher=ABC-CLIO |date=January 1, 2002 |isbn=9780313319570 |access-date=2014-02-09 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HTXDxjW6OBAC&pg=PA125}}{{cite book |title=Presidential Profiles: The Clinton Years |first=Shirley Anne |last=Warshaw |publisher=Infobase Publishing |year=2004 |lccn=2004040351 |isbn=0-8160-5333-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/clintonyears0000wars/page/129 129] |chapter=William A. Galston |access-date=2014-02-09 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDPB1E07cnoC&pg=PA129 |url=https://archive.org/details/clintonyears0000wars/page/129 }}{{cite web |title=Dr. William A. Galston |publisher=National Endowment for Democracy |access-date=2014-02-09 |url=http://www.ned.org/about/board/dr-william-a-galston}}

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William Arthur Galston ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|ɔː|l|s|t|ən}}; born January 17, 1946) is an American author, academic, and political advisor,{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85-26611 |title=Galston, William A. 1946- (William Arthur) [WorldCat Identities] |access-date=2014-02-09}} who holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-galston/ |title=William Galston|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=2013-06-14}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.brookings.edu/experts/galstonw?view=bio|title=William A. Galston|work=Brookings|access-date=2013-06-14}} Galston specializes in issues of U.S. public philosophy and political institutions, having joined the Brookings Institution on January 1, 2006.

Family

He is the son of Yale University plant physiologist Arthur Galston.Chou, Cecelia. [https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/arthur-william-galston-1920-2008 Arthur William Galston (1920–2008)] The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. published 2017-04-27.

Career

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,{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/irsd/lectures/galston_bio.htm|title=William Galston|access-date=2013-06-14}} and John B. Anderson.{{cite web|url=https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/interviews-with-the-administration/william-galston-oral-history-deputy-assistant|title=William Galston Oral History, Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy|date=27 October 2016 |access-date=2017-04-01}} 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|date=September 2024}}

Galston had once served in the United States Marine Corps as a sergeant. He was educated at Cornell, where he was a member of the Telluride House, and the University of Chicago, where he got his Ph.D.{{cite web|url=http://www.brookings.edu/experts/galstonw|title=William A. Galston|work=Brookings|access-date=2013-06-14}} He then taught for nearly a decade in the Department of Government at the University of Texas.{{cite web|url=http://cima.ned.org/about-cima/cima-advisory-council/william-galston|title=William Galston |work=Center for International Media Assistance |access-date=2014-02-09}} 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, U.S. 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.{{cite news

|newspaper=Washington Post |page=A17 |date=February 16, 2016

|title=Democrats' next leaders will grapple with schism

|quote=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."}}{{cite web

|title=William A.Galston - News, Articles, Biography, Photos |work=WSJ.com

|publisher=Wall Street Journal |access-date=2014-02-16

|url=http://topics.wsj.com/person/G/william_a-galston/7800}}

Publications

{{cite book

|lccn=2010030599 |isbn=9780521763745

|title=Poverty and morality : religious and secular perspectives

|location=Cambridge; New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2010}}

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|lccn=2005008940 |isbn=0742549798