Patrick Basham

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Patrick Basham is the director of the London and Washington based think tank the Democracy Institute[1]. Basham is also the founding director of the Social Affairs Center at Canada’s Fraser Institute, and senior fellow with the Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government[2]. Basham's role at the Fraser Institute involved publishing research on the subject of tobacco. The Fraser Institute have been accused of being a front group for the tobacco industry[3][4]. Basham has co-authored a number of research papers with tobacco lobbyist John Luik[5].

Basham is an adjunct scholar at the the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute[6], and is the founding director of the Social Affairs Center at the Fraser Institute.[7].

Some of his work includes; "What's the BMA been drinking? The Case Against an Alcohol Ad Ban"[8], co-written with John Luik.

Affiliations

Fraser Institute | Cato Institute | Democracy Institute | Spiked | Social Affairs Unit

Publications

  • Patrick Basham, 2001, Assessing the term limits experiment, California and beyond, The Cato Institute
  • Patrick Basham, 2002, Does clean money make for competitive elections?: The failure of Maine's experiment with taxpayer financing of campaigns (Policy analysis)
  • Patrick Basham, 2002, This is reform?: Predicting the impact of the new campaign financing regulations, Cato Institute
  • Patrick Basham 2003, Defining democracy down: Explaining the campaign to repeal term limits
  • John Luik, Patrick Basham & Gio Gori, 2006, Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade, Social Affairs Unit
  • Patrick Basham, 2009, Butt Out! How Philip Morris Burned Ted Kennedy, the FDA & the Anti-Tobacco Movement, Democracy Institute
  • Patrick Basham and John Luik, 2010, A Bleary-Eyed Attitude to Alcohol Research, Spiked Online

Notes

  1. About Us, About Us, Democracy Institute, Accessed 10-February-2010
  2. Think Tank: Biography, Patrick Basham, PBS, Accessed 10-February-2010
  3. James Repace, The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco Industry?, Non-Smokers Rights Association, Accessed 10-February-2010
  4. In Depth: Fraser Institute, The Fraser Institute at 30, The Fraser Institute, Accessed 10-February-2010
  5. Montreal Gazette, Blowing smoke, Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario), 2-July-2001
  6. Patrick Basham, Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010
  7. Patrick Basham, Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010
  8. Patrick Basham & John Luik, What's the BMA been drinking? The Case Against an Alcohol Ad Ban, Democracy Institute Social Risk Series Paper, September 2009, accessed 15 Feb 2010