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Patrick Basham is the director of the London and Washington based think tank the [[Democracy Institute]]<ref>About Us, [http://www.democracyinstitute.org/AboutUs.htm About Us], ''Democracy Institute'', Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. 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<ref>Think Tank: Biography, [http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/bio_2045.html Patrick Basham], PBS, Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. 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<ref>James Repace, [http://www.nsra-adnf.ca/cms/file/pdf/nfraser.pdf The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco Industry?], Non-Smokers Rights Association, Accessed 10-February-2010</ref><ref>In Depth: Fraser Institute, [http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/fraserinstitute/ The Fraser Institute at 30], ''The Fraser Institute'', Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. Basham has co-authored a number of research papers with tobacco lobbyist [[John Luik]]<ref>Montreal Gazette, Blowing smoke, Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario), 2-July-2001</ref>. | Patrick Basham is the director of the London and Washington based think tank the [[Democracy Institute]]<ref>About Us, [http://www.democracyinstitute.org/AboutUs.htm About Us], ''Democracy Institute'', Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. 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<ref>Think Tank: Biography, [http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/bio_2045.html Patrick Basham], PBS, Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. 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<ref>James Repace, [http://www.nsra-adnf.ca/cms/file/pdf/nfraser.pdf The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco Industry?], Non-Smokers Rights Association, Accessed 10-February-2010</ref><ref>In Depth: Fraser Institute, [http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/fraserinstitute/ The Fraser Institute at 30], ''The Fraser Institute'', Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. Basham has co-authored a number of research papers with tobacco lobbyist [[John Luik]]<ref>Montreal Gazette, Blowing smoke, Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario), 2-July-2001</ref>. | ||
| − | Basham is an adjunct scholar at the the Center for Representative Government at the [[Cato Institute]]<ref>[http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-basham Patrick Basham], Cato Institute website, | + | Basham is an adjunct scholar at the the Center for Representative Government at the [[Cato Institute]]<ref>[http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-basham Patrick Basham], Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010</ref>, and is the founding director of the Social Affairs Center at the [[Fraser Institute]].<ref>[http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-basham Patrick Basham], Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010</ref>. |
Some of his work includes; "What's the BMI been drinking?"<ref>[http://www.aigeurope.org/?LinkServID=2632D613-D8BF-8054-2BADA1261BD2E949&showMeta=0]</ref>, co-written with John Luik. | Some of his work includes; "What's the BMI been drinking?"<ref>[http://www.aigeurope.org/?LinkServID=2632D613-D8BF-8054-2BADA1261BD2E949&showMeta=0]</ref>, co-written with John Luik. | ||
Revision as of 16:52, 15 February 2010
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 BMI been drinking?"[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
- ↑ About Us, About Us, Democracy Institute, Accessed 10-February-2010
- ↑ Think Tank: Biography, Patrick Basham, PBS, Accessed 10-February-2010
- ↑ James Repace, The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco Industry?, Non-Smokers Rights Association, Accessed 10-February-2010
- ↑ In Depth: Fraser Institute, The Fraser Institute at 30, The Fraser Institute, Accessed 10-February-2010
- ↑ Montreal Gazette, Blowing smoke, Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario), 2-July-2001
- ↑ Patrick Basham, Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010
- ↑ Patrick Basham, Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010
- ↑ [1]
