Background
Galston, William Arthur was born on January 17, 1946 in Brooklyn. Son of Arthur William and Dale Judith (Kuntz) Galston.
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Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)
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This book is a major contribution to the current theory of liberalism by an eminent political theorist. It challenges the views of such theorists as Rawls, Dworkin, and Ackerman who believe that the essence of liberalism is that it should remain neutral concerning different ways of life and individual conceptions of what is good or valuable. Professor Galston argues that the modern liberal state is committed to a distinctive conception of the human good, and to that end has developed characteristic institutions and practices--representative governments, diverse societies, market economies, and zones of private action--in the pursuit of specific public purposes that give unity to the liberal state. These purposes guide liberal public policy, shape liberal justice, require the practice of liberal virtues, and rest on a liberal public culture. Consequently the diversity characteristic of liberal societies is limited by their institutional, personal, and cultural preconditions.
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Kant and the Problem of History
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Kant and the Problem of History Hardcover
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Rural Development in the United States: Connecting Theory, Practice, and Possibilities
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Rural Development in the United States presents a comprehensive evaluation of the economic, environmental, and political implications of past rural development and a thorough consideration of the directions in which future development efforts should go. The authors have assembled the best of what is being thought and done with regard to rural development in the United States, and they place it in a broad theoretical, historical, and geographical context. Rural Development in the United States includes important information about how national and international trends affect rural communities and development strategies, and it will help guide rural economic development policy in the United States during the 1990s and beyond.
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- A Tough Row to Hoe: The 1985 Farm Bill and Beyond (This book surveys the history of past agricultural polici...)
William Arthur Galston
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Bachelor, Cornell Univercity, 1967; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1969; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1973.
Career
Assistant professor department government, University Texas, Austin, 1973-1980;
associate professor department government, University Texas, Austin, 1980-1982;
issues director, Mondale President Campaign, Washington, 1982-1984;
director economics and social programs, Roosevelt Center American Policy Studies, Washington, 1985-1988;
professor school public affairs, U. Maryland., College Park, since 1988;
deputy assistant to president domestic policy, The White House, Washington, since 1993. Visiting fellow Institution Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, 1980-1981. Cons.Temple for Governor Campaign, 1982.
Member of advisory board Ford/Aspen-Wye Rural Economics Policy Project, 1989-1992. Member selection committee rural policy fellowships Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1989-1991. Consultant and Speaker.in field.
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Rural Development in the United States: Connecting Theory, Practice, and Possibilities
(Rural Development in the United States presents a compreh...)
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A Tough Row to Hoe: The 1985 Farm Bill and Beyond
(This book surveys the history of past agricultural polici...)
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Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)
(This book is a major contribution to the current theory o...)
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Kant and the Problem of History
(Kant and the Problem of History Hardcover)
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Rural Development in the United States: Connecting Theory, Practice, and Possibilities
Membership
Advisor Gore for President Campaign, Washington, 1988. Chief speechwriterJohn Anderson National Unity Campaign, Washington, 1980. Member working group on bicentennial bill of rights Wilson Center, 1990-1991.
Sergeant United States Marine Corps, 1969-1970. Member American Political Sciences Association (program chairman nominative political theory section 1992), Conference Study Political Thought, American Society Political and Legal Philosophy (program chairman annual mtng. 1989), Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Miriam, September 15, 1968. 1 child, Ezra Moses.
