Worldwide Threats to Constitutional Democracy

Join us for a lecture on "Worldwide Threats to Constitutional Democracy."

William A. Galston holds the Ezra Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program, where he is a senior fellow. A participant in six presidential campaigns, he served from 1993 to 1995 as deputy assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy. He previously served as professor and acting dean at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs and founded the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) in 2001.

Galston is the author of 11 books and more than 100 articles in the fields of political theory, public policy, and American politics. His most recent books are Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy (Yale, 2018) and Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech (Yale, 2025). A winner of the American Political Science Association’s Hubert H. Humphrey Award, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. He writes a weekly column for the Wall Street Journal.

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