Public Matters Politics, Policy, and Religion

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, and religion.

William A. Galston is director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Saul I. Stern Professor of Civic Engagement at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, and director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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PART I: POLITICS

5

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1 Incomplete Victory: The Rise of the New Democrats

7

(20)

2 Strategic Challenges facing the Democratic Party

27

(14)

3 Two Postmortems: The 2004 Elections and the Future of the Democratic Party

41

(10)

4 The Art of Association in Free Societies: Alexis de Tocqueville and Liberal Democracy

51

(8)

PART II: POLICY

59

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5 The Perils of Preemptive War

61

(6)

6 Some Arguments for Universal Service

67

(8)

7 Ethics and Public Policy in a Pluralist Democracy: The Case of Human Embryo Research

75

(14)

8 Some Proposals to Help Parents: A Progressive Perspective

89

(20)

PART III: RELIGION

109

(66)

9 Conscience, Religious Accommodation, and Political Authority

111

(20)

10 Religion, Family, and Regime: The Case of Mormon Polygamy

131

(10)

11 Contending with Liberalism: Modern Catholic Social Thought

141

(14)

12 Traditional Judaism and American Citizenship

155

(14)

13 Jews, Muslims, and the Prospects for Pluralism

169

(6)

Bibliography

175

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Index

181

(2)

About the Author

183

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