WILLIAM GALSTON
http://www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/galstonm.html

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Books written or edited:

Rural Development in the United States: Connecting Theory and Practice, by William A. Galston and Karen J. Baehler (Island Press, 1995). Paper, $32.00.

NOMOS XXXIV: Virtue Crisis of the Humanities, edited by John W. Chapman and William A. Galston (New York University Press, 1993). Paper $17.50.

Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity In The Liberal State, by William A. Galston (1991). Cloth, $69.95; paper, $24.95.

A Tough Row to Hoe: The 1985 Farm Bill and Beyond, by William A. Galston (University Press of America, 1985).

Justice and the Human Good, by William A. Galston (University of Chicago Press, 1980).

Articles and essays:

"Democracy and Value Pluralism," Social Philosophy & Policy 17, 1 (Winter 2000):255-268. Reprinted in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, J. and Jeffrey Paul, eds., Democracy, (New York; Cambridge University Press, 2000).

"The U.S. Rural Economy in Historical and Global Context," in Ray Marshall, ed., Back To Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America, (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2000).

"(How) Does the Internet Affect Community? Some Speculations in Search of Evidence, in Elaine Ciulla Kamarck and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., eds., Democracy.Com? Governance in a Networked World (New Hampshire: Hollis Publishing Company, 1999).

"Expressive Liberty, Moral Pluralism, Political Pluralism: Three Sources of Liberal Theory," William and Mary Law Review 40, 3 (March 1999): 869-908.

"Diversity, Toleration, and Deliberative Democracy: Religious Minorities and Public Schooling," in Stephen Macedo, ed., Deliberative Politics; Essays on Democracy and Disagreement (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

"Value Pluralism and Liberal Political Theory," American Political Science Review, 93, 4 (December 1999): 769-778.

"Corps Values," Blueprint: Ideas For a New Century, 4 (Fall 1999): 19-20.

"Where We Stand," Blueprint: Ideas For a New Century, 3 (Spring 1999): 6-15.

"Social Capital in America: Civil Society and Civic Trust," in Josef Janning, Charles Kupchan, and Dirk Rumberg, eds., Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (Gutersloh: Gertellsmann Foundation Publishers, 1999).

"A Student of Leo Strauss in the Clinton Administration," in Kenneth L. Deutsch and John A. Murley, eds., Leo Strauss, The Straussians, and The American Regime, (Oxford; Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).

"Civic Renewal and U.S. Public Schools," in Van Andel Education Institute, K-12 Education: The Cultural Context (The Van Andel Education Institute 1999).

"The Challenge of Civic Renewal," in Van Andel Education Institute, K-12 Education: The Cultural Context, (The Van Andel Education Institute, 1999).

"Promoting Tolerance for the Twenty-First Century," Polis, No. 6, (September 1998): 65-70.

"A Brief Response to the Commentators," The Good Society, 8, 1 (Winter 1998): 22.

"A Political Economy and the Politics of Virtue: U.S. Public Philosophy at Century’s End," The Good Society 18, 1 (Winter 1998): 1.

"The Legal and Political Implications of Moral Pluralism," Maryland Law Review 57, 1 (1998): 236-250.

"Political Economy and the Politics of Virtue: US Public Philosophy at Century’s End," in Anita L. Allen and Milton C. Regan, Jr., eds., Debating Democracy’s Discontent; Essays on American Politics, Law, and Public Philosophy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).

"Five Realities that Will Shape 21st Century Politics," with Elaine C. Kamarck, Blueprint; Ideas For A New Century, 1 (Fall 1998):6-29.

"America’s Civic Condition: A Glance at the Evidence," in E.J. Dionne, Jr., ed., Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America (Washington, DC: Brookings, 1998).

"Forging a United Front on Family Policy: Premises and Suggestions," in Christopher Wolfe, ed., The Family, Civil Society, and the State (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).

"Is Democracy in Unique Peril?," Echos 1, 3 (Winter 1997):21-24.

"Value Pluralism and Political Liberalism," Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy 16, 2, (spring 1996): 7-13. Republished with revisions in Joao Carlos Espada, ed., Liberdade, virtude, e interesse proprio, (Lisbon: Publicacoes Europa-America, 1997).

"An American Public Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century: The Theory and Practice of Liberal Community," (Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 1997). Republished with revisions as "A Public Philosophy for the 21st Century," The Responsive Community 8, 3 (Summer 1998): 18-36.

"Social Mores Are Not Enough," The Responsive Community 7, 4 (Fall 1997): 16-20.

"A Progressive Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century," in Building the Bridge: 10 Big Ideas to Transform America, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).

"When Should Norms Be Legally Enforced? A Reply to Richard Epstein," The Good Society 6, 1 (Winter 1996): 8-9.

"Won’t You Be My Neighbor?" The American Prospect, (May/June 1996):16-18.

"The View from the White House--Individual and Community Empowerment," in Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus, To Empower People: From State to Civil Society, Twentieth anniversary edition edited by Michael Novak (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1996).

"Divorce American Style," The Public Interest, 124 (Summer 1996).

"Public Morality and Public Policy: The Case of Children and Family Policy," Santa Clara Law Review, 36, 2 (1996): 313-323.

"Gambling Away Our Moral Capitol," with David Wasserman The Public Interest, 123 (Spring 1996).

An Affirmative Action Status Report: Evidence and Options," in Opportunity in the United States; Social and Individual Responsibility, (Washington, DC: The Aspen institute, 1996).

"The Reinstitutionalization of Marriage: Political Theory and Public Policy," in David Popenoe, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and David Blankenhorn, eds., Promises to Keep: The Decline and Renewal of Marriage in America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).

"The Political Economy of Cities," in David Lewis Schaefer and Roberta Rubel Schaeffer, eds., The Future of Cities, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996).

"Liberal Justice," in James P. Sterba, ed., Morality and Social Justice, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995).

"Progressive Politics and Communitariam Culture," in Michael Walzer, ed., Toward a Global Civil Society, (Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1995).

"Two Concepts of Liberalism." Ethics 105, 3 (April 1995): 516-534.

"Liberal Virtues and the Formation of Civic Character," in Mary Ann Glendon and David Blankenhorn, eds., Seedbeds of Virtue, (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1995).

"Reason, Consent, and the U.S. Constitution: Bruce Ackerman’s We The People," (with Miriam Galston) Ethics 104, 3 (April 1994): 446-466.

"Reinventing Federalism: The Clinton/Gore Program for a New Partnership Among the Federal, State, Local, and Tribal Governments," with Geoffrey L. Tibbets, Publius 24, 3 (Summer 1994):23-48.

"The Politics of Evasion: Democrats and the Presidency," with Elaine Kamarck, (Washington, DC: Progressive Policy Institute, 1989). Reprinted in Eric M. Uslander, ed., American Political Parties: A Reader, (Itasca, Illinois, F.E. Peacock, 1993).

"What is Living and What is Dead in Kant’s Practical Philosophy?" in Ronald Beiner and William James Booth, eds., Kant and Political Philosophy, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993).

"John Dewey and the Religion of Democracy," Raritan 12, 3 (Winter 1993): 144-154.

"Cosmopolitan Altruism," Social Philosophy and Policy 10, 1 (Winter 1993): 118-134. Reprinted in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds., Altlruism, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

"Political Theory in the 1980’s: Perplexity Amidst Diversity," in Ada W. Finifter, ed., Political Science; The State of the Discipline, (Washington, DC: American Political Science Association, 1993).

"Liberal Democracy and the Problem of Technology," in Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Technology in the Western Political Tradition, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).

"The Transition: Reasserting Presidential Leadership," with Elaine Kamarck, in Will Marshall and Martin Schram, eds., Mandate for Change, (New York: Berkeley Books, 1993).

"Causes of Declining Well-being Among U.S. Children: Data and Debates," Aspen Institute Quarterly, 5, 1 (Winter 1993): 52-77.

"A Progressive Family Policy for the 1990’s," with Elaine Kamarck, in Will Marshall and Martin Schram, eds., Mandate for Change, (New York: Berkeley Books, 1993).

"Rural America in the 1990s: Trends and Choices," Policy Studies Journal 20, 2 (1992): 202-211. Reprinted in revised form in Rural Development Perspectives, 9, 1 (ERS/USDA, October 1993): 15-18; and in Linda Swanson and David Brown, eds., Population Change and the Future of Rural America, (Washington, DC: ERS/USDA, 1993).

"The American National Community," The Responsive Community, (Summer 1992).

"Family Matters," The New Democrat, 4,3 (July 1992): 19-22.

"Home Alone: What Our Policymakers Should Know About Our Children," The New Republic (December 2, 1992): 40-44.

"Practical Philosophy and the Bill of Rights: Reflections on Some Contemporary Issues," in Michael J. Lacey and Knud Haakonssen, eds., A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics, and Law --1791-1991, (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1991).

"Toughness as a Political Virtue," Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Summer 1991).

"Civic Education in the Liberal State," in Nancy L. Rosenblum, ed., Liberalism and the Moral Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989). Edited version reprinted in Bernard Murchland, ed., Higher Education and the Practice of Democratic Politics, (Dayton: The Kettering Foundation, 1991).

"Freedom, Virtue, and Social Unity: Gordon Wood’s Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution,’" Chicago-Kent Law Review, 66, 1 (1990): 39-45.

"Knowledge and Power," PS, 23, 3 (September, 1990).

"The Use and Abuse of the Classics in American Constitutionalism," Chicago-Kent Law Review, 66, 1 (1990): 47-67.

"False Universality: Infinite Personality and Finite Existence in Unger’s Politics," Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 81, No. 4 (Summer 1987). Reprinted in Robin W. Lovin and Michael J. Perry eds., Cricique and Construction: A Symposium on Roberto Unger’s Politics (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1990).

"Community, Democracy, Philosophy, The Political Thought of Michael Walzer" a review essay of works by Michael Walzer, Political Theory 17 No. 1 (February 1989): 119-130.

"Pluralism and Social Unity," Ethics 99 (July 1989): 711-726.

"Putting a Democrat in the White House," Brookings Review, (Summer 1989).

"Rural Economics," with Susan E. Sechler, in Mark Green and Mark Pinsky, eds., America’s Transition: Blurprints for the 1990s, (New York: Democracy Project, 1989).

"Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy: The Constitutional Role of American Political Parties," in Sarah Baumgartner Thurow, ed. Constitutionalism in Perspective: The United States Constitution in Twentieth Century Perspective, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988). Reprinted with revisions in Peter W. Schramm and Bradford P. Wilson, eds., America Political Parties and Constitutional Politics, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993).

"Campaign 1988 and Foreign Policy," with Christopher J. Makins Foreign Policy, 71 (Summer 1988).

"Did Super Tuesday Work?" Election Politics, 5, 3 (Summer 1988).

"U.S. Rural Economic Development in a Competitive Global Economy," in Gene F. Summers et al., eds., Agriculture and Beyond; Rural Economic Development, (University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, 1988).

"Liberal Virtues," American Political Science Review 82 No. 4 (December 1988): 1277-1290.

"Socratic Reason and Lockean Rights: the Place of the University in a Liberal Democracy." Interpretation 16, 1 (Fall 1988).

"Tocqueville on Liberalism and Religion," Social Research, (Fall 1987).

"Liberalism and Public Morality," in Alphonso J. Damico, ed. Liberals on Liberalism (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1986). Published in revised and expanded form as "Public Morality and Religion in the Liberal State," PS 19, 4 (Fall 1986).

"Equality of Opportunity and Liberal Theory," in Frank Lucash, ed., Justice and Equality: Here and Now (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986).

"The Future of the Democratic Party," Brookings Review, (Fall 1985).

"On the Alleged Right to Do Wrong; A Response to Waldron" Ethics 93, 2 (January 1983).

"Heidegger’s Plato: A Critique of Plato’s Doctrine of Truth," The Philosophical Forum 13, 4 (Summer 1982).

"Moral Personality and Liberal Theory: John Rawls’ "Dewey Lectures’" Political theory 10, 4 (November 1982).