Special Events:
Lunch Symposium: The 2016 Presidential Election and the Changing Electorate and Electoral Participation
William (Bill) Galston is a senior fellow and holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. He is a former policy advisor to President Clinton, having served from 1993 to 1995 as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. He is an expert on domestic policy, political campaigns, and elections and the author of eight books and more than 100 articles in the fields of political theory, public policy, and American politics. His most recent books are Liberal Pluralism (Cambridge, 2002), The Practice of Liberal Pluralism (Cambridge, 2004), and Public Matters (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). 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 will draw into this discussion his current research that focuses on the implications of political polarization and ways to promote greater civic participation among citizens who are not likely to vote.
Kay Hymowitz is the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She writes extensively on childhood, family issues, poverty, and cultural change in America (from a conservative perspective). She is the author of Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys (2011), Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age (2006), and Liberation’s Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age (2004), among others. She writes for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, New York Newsday, Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, and Commentary. She will offer commentary and insights on the national election, as well as reflections based on her work on class and culture and the changing electorate.
