Anti-Pluralism

“[Galston's] is the right way for any liberal to think and write about a victorious right-wing populist insurgency: not with terror and dismay that democracy has met its match, but with patient, informed arguments about why it happened—and what to do about it.”—Barton Swaim, The Wall Street Journal

“[Galston’s] willingness to recommend difficult shifts in policy is brave.”—Financial Times

“Galston provides a reminder that the [liberal democracy’s] great virtue, compared with its authoritarian, theocratic, and socialist rivals, is its ability for self-reflection and correction. Galston is betting that the democratic spirit is still alive.”—Foreign Affairs

“Clear and concise, this book is a useful account of the rise of populism and why populism is not the same thing as liberal democracy.”—Choice

“Coming from the pen of one of the most respected of American political theorists, it offers a lucid and balanced analysis of the current crisis of our liberal democracies.”—Law and Liberty

“This remarkable volume is at once a superb analysis of the crisis of liberal democracy and a model of fresh thinking about how to reform and reinvent our divided country.”—Carl Gershman, President, the National Endowment for Democracy
 

"Bill Galston is one of the most acute observers of contemporary American politics.  Anti-Pluralism moves seamlessly from the theory of democracy to concrete proposals for how to deal with the current wave of populism that serves as an antidote to our current pessimism."—Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at Stanford and author of Political Order and Political Decay