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  • Anti-Pluralism

    The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy

    by William A. Galston ...
    Series series Politics and Culture
    The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today’s populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy itself remains ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Divorce

    Crisis, Challenge, Or Relief?

    Edited by David Chiriboga, William A. Galston ...
    Not since William Goode's Women in Divorce in the 1950's have we had such a comprehensive study of adjustment to divorce. This longitudinal work views divorce as a transition process which may have positive or negative outcomes over time. In addition to statistical analysis, the book includes very interesting case studies to demonstrate the dynamic events occurring as individuals refashion their ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Public Matters

    Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century

    by William A. Galston ...
    After preparing to lead a quiet life as a teacher and scholar of political theory, William Galston has spent the past quarter century crossing the boundaries between academia and public life, including a two-year stint as Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy under President Clinton. Reflecting these boundary-crossings, Public Matters contains a selection of Galston's essays on politics, policy, ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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    Anti-Pluralism

    The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy (Politics and Culture)

    by William A. Galston ...
    Narrated by Matthew Josdal ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 25 min

    The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today's populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy itself remains ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Civil Society Reader

    The Classic Essays

    by Don E. Eberly, Daniel Bell, Robert Bellah, Peter Berger, John Dilulio, Allan Ehrenhalt, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Amitai Etzioni, Francis Fukuyama, William Galston0, Mary Ann Glendon1, Vaclav Havel2, Gertrude Himmelfarb3, John McKnight4, Richard John Neuhaus5, Robert Nisbet6, Michael Sandel7, William A. Schambra8, James Q. Wilson9, Alan Wolfe0 ...
    There is a growing anxiety about the basic health of society. Everywhere we see the fraying of the social fabric, the decline of families, the absence of consensus on unifying moral principles, and the disappearance of community and voluntary associations. Around the world, politicians and intellectuals of all political persuasions seek to restore civil society by cultivating stronger public ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Poverty and Morality

    Religious and Secular Perspectives

    Edited by William A. Galston, Peter H. Hoffenberg ...
    This multi-authored book explores the ways that many influential ethical traditions - secular and religious, Western and non-Western - wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of the poor. These traditions include Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, among the religious perspectives; classical liberalism, feminism, liberal-egalitarianism, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Political Ideas in the Romantic Age

    Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    This new edition features the previously unpublished delivery text of Berlin's inaugural lecture as a professor at Oxford, which derives from this volume and stands as the briefest and most pithy version of his famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty.?Political Ideas in the Romantic Age is the only book in which the great intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin lays out in one continuous account most ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Philosophical Dimensions of Public Policy

    Edited by William Galston ...
    Series series Policy Studies Review Annual Series
    At the mid-point of the twentieth century, many philosophers in the English-speaking world regarded political and moral philosophy as all but moribund. Thinkers influenced by logical positivism believe that ethical statements are merely disguised expressions of individual emotion lacking propositional force, or that the conditions for the validation of ethical statements could not be specified, or ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Truth and Governance

    Religious and Secular Views

    Edited by Tom G. Palmer, William A. Galston ...
    Series series The Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
    Taking the long view of conflicts between truth and political powerWhat role does truth play in government? In context of recent political discourse around the globe-and especially in the United States-it is easy to believe that truth, in the form of indisputable facts, is a matter of debate.But it's also important to remember that since ancient times, every religious and philosophical tradition ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Politics Recovered

    Realist Thought in Theory and Practice

    by Matt Sleat, Duncan Bell, Richard Bellamy, Elizabeth Frazer, Michael Freeden, William A. Galston, Charles Larmore, Alison McQueen, John Medearis, Glen Newey0, David Owen1, Mark Philp2, Paul Sagar3, Rahul Sagar4, William Scheuerman5 ...
    Is political theory political enough? Or does a tendency toward abstraction, idealization, moralism, and utopianism leave contemporary political theory out of touch with real politics as it actually takes place, and hence unable to speak meaningfully to or about our world? Realist political thought, which has enjoyed a significant revival of interest in recent years, seeks to avoid such pitfalls ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Politics Recovered

    Realist Thought in Theory and Practice

    by Matt Sleat, Duncan Bell, Richard Bellamy, Elizabeth Frazer, Michael Freeden, William A. Galston, Charles Larmore, Alison McQueen, John Medearis, Glen Newey0, David Owen1, Mark Philp2, Paul Sagar3, Rahul Sagar4, William Scheuerman5 ...
    Is political theory political enough? Or does a tendency toward abstraction, idealization, moralism, and utopianism leave contemporary political theory out of touch with real politics as it actually takes place, and hence unable to speak meaningfully to or about our world? Realist political thought, which has enjoyed a significant revival of interest in recent years, seeks to avoid such pitfalls ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Taking Parenting Public

    The Case for a New Social Movement

    by Enola G. Aird, Allan C. Carlson, David Elkind, S Jody Heymann, Wade F. Horn, Bernice Kanner, Raymond Seidelman, Theda Skocpol, Peter Winn0, Edward Wolff1, Ruth A. Wooden2, William A. Galston3, Juliet B. Schor4, Ruy Teixeira5, Cornel West6 ...
    Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment-both personal and public-into the work of raising children and argues that we are all "stockholders" in the next generation. With a foreword by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West, Taking Parenting Public crosses boundaries to bring together thinkers from ... Read more

    $44.59 USD