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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Challenges to Liberal Democracy -- ONE Democratic Erosion and Political Convergence -- TWO Liberal Democracy in Theory -- THREE The Populist Challenge -- FOUR The European Project and Its Enemies (with Clara J. Hendrickson) -- FIVE Is Democracy at Risk in the United States? -- SIX Liberal Democracy in America What Is to Be Done? -- SEVEN Democratic Leadership -- EIGHT The Incompleteness of Liberal Democracy -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y

William Galston explores the difficulties market democracies face in an era of diminished growth and a weakened middle class. Galston argues that if the West fails to address economic stagnation, other domestic and foreign policy issues will prove intractable.

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

Abstract: Bryan Garsten's essay suggests that liberal polities should be understood as offering "refuge" from overweening public power. While there are sound arguments to support this approach, it downplays the affirmative exercise of public power in the liberal state and leads to policy proposals—such as a more generous stance toward refugees—that may not make sense when taking into account both the right of political communities to put the needs of their members first and the considerations that have led to rising doubts throughout Western democracies about accepting large numbers of refugees at this time.