Patrick Basham
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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
