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Guest Commentator

Paul F. deLespinasse

BC Guest Commentator Paul F. deLespinasse is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Computer Science at Adrian College. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1966, and has been a National Merit Scholar, an NDEA Fellow, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a Fellow in Law and Political Science at the Harvard Law School. His college textbook, "Thinking About Politics: American Government in Associational Perspective," was published in 1981 and his most recent book is "Beyond Capitalism: A Classless Society With (Mostly) Free Markets." His columns have appeared in newspapers in Michigan, Oregon, and a number of other states. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Guest Commentary

Democracy Can Disappear

By Paul F. deLespinasse Guest Commentator

Developments in many countries like Peru, Brazil, Hungary and even the United States suggest that we cannot assume that once democracy exists, it will always last.

Democratic government is impossible when the social conditions that it rests on don't exist. Democratic governments have disappeared. Democratic government is impossible when the social conditions…

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