William Galston

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William Galston is a political theorist. He is the Saul I Stern Professor of Civic Engagement and the director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow of Governance at the Brookings Institution. He was also a senior advisor to President of the United States Bill Clinton on domestic policy, and has also been employed by the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and Walter Mondale. 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. He previously taught in the department of Government at the University of Texas-Austin.

In political philosophy, he has in recent years contributed greatly to the advancement of political pluralism and to the understanding of domestic policy issues in liberal society.

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Justice and the Human Good, University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Liberal Purposes, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Liberal Pluralism, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
The Practice of Liberal Pluralism, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Public Matters: Essays on Politics, Policy and Religion, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.