Civil Society and the “Art of Association”

Issue Date January 2000
Volume 11
Issue 1
Page Numbers 64-70
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About the Author

William A. Galston is the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. His many books include, most recently, Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy (2018).

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