{{Short description|American political scientist and author}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP primary sources|date=February 2008}} {{No footnotes|date=November 2019}} }}
'''Clement Bezold''' is a political scientist, author, futurist and a founder of the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) as well as its for-profit subsidiary Alternative Futures Associates.
Bezold received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida.
In 1977, Bezold established the Institute for Alternative Futures in Alexandria, Virginia. Its goal was to encourage "Anticipatory Democracy". In 1982, Bezold started Alternative Futures Associates as a consulting firm on corporate strategic planning.
Bezold has written or edited books related to the future, particularly on the future of health care. He serves as the Consulting Editor for the ''Journal of Futures Studies'' and sits on the editorial advisory boards of the journals ''Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting'', ''Technology Forecasting and Social Change'' and ''World Future Review''.
==Books, Reports & Selected Articles== *''Anticipatory Democracy: People in Politics of the Future'' (1978) *''The Future of Work and Health'' (1985)
==External links== *[http://www.altfutures.org Institute for Alternative Futures] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110725002050/http://altfutures.org/draproject/ Disparity Reducing Advances (DRA) Project] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100727233736/http://www.altfutures.org/clement-bezold Clem Bezold]
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