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][3].
Basham worked with the the Fraser Institute in a campaign against public health regulation on tobacco[4][5] as a lobbyist as recently as the year 2000[6][7][8][9][10]. Basham has co-authored a number of research papers with another tobacco industry lobbyist John Luik who works with Basham at the Democracy Institute[11].
Affiliations
Fraser Institute | Cato Institute | Democracy Institute | Spiked | Social Affairs Unit
Publications
- Partrick Basham, 2010, Sri Lanka needs carrot, not stick, The Guardian, 14-Feb-2010
- Patrick Basham and John Luik, 2010, A bleary-eyed attitude to alcohol research, 3-February-2010
- Patrick Basham, 2010, President Obama’s Fork in the Road, 25-Jan-2010
- Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2010, The myth of an ‘obesity tsunami’, 22-Jan-2010
- Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2010, In Defense of Santa, 21-Jan-2010
- Patrick Basham, 2009, Butt Out! How Philip Morris Burned Ted Kennedy, the FDA & the Anti-Tobacco Movement, Democracy Institute
- Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Are Public Smoking Bans Necessary?, 17-Dec-2009
- Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Can the UK Avert a Smoking Irish Failure?, 29-October-2009
- Patrick Basham & John Luik 2009, The City That Never Smokes, 26-October-2009
- Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Women keep drinking, 3-March-2009
- DI Report, 2009, Alcohol Advertising Bans – September 200909-Sep-2009
- Patrick Basham, 2009, The Senator and the Symbol, 28-Aug-2009
- Patrick Basham, 2009, Afghanistan's Democratic Debacle, 21-Aug-2009
- Patrick Basham, 2009, Displaying the truth about policymaking, 13-Aug-2009
- Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, A fat doctor in the White House?, 29-Jul-2009
- Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, on discrimination against fat African-American women, 29-Jul-2009
- Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Banning alcohol ads won’t cure alcoholism, 21-Jul-2009 Tuesday 21 July 2009
- Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Turning fat people into social outcasts, on turning fat people into social outcasts, 30-Jun-2009
- Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Smoke gets in the government’s eyes, 23-Jun-2009
- Patrick Basham, 2009, The unholy alliance between Philip Morris & the FDA in the Winston-Salem Journal, 06-Jun-2009
- Patrick Basham and John Luik’s, 2009, KICKING THE SODA CAN: HARD TRUTHS ABOUT A SOFT DRINK TAX, 3-June-2009
- Patrick Basham, 2009, Keep FDA away from tobacco Orange County Register, 3-June-2009
- Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, A display of ignorance over youth smoking, 29 April 2009
- John Luik, Patrick Basham & Gio Gori, 2006, Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade, Social Affairs Unit
- Patrick Basham 2003, Defining democracy down: Explaining the campaign to repeal term limits
- Patrick Basham, 2002, This is reform?: Predicting the impact of the new campaign financing regulations, 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, 2001, Assessing the term limits experiment, California and beyond, The Cato Institute
Notes
- ↑ About Us, About Us, Democracy Institute, Accessed 10-February-2010
- ↑ Think Tank: Biography, Patrick Basham, PBS, Accessed 10-February-2010
- ↑ Patrick Basham, Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 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
- ↑ Sherry Stein, Letter to Adrain Payne at British American Tobacco, 28-July-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 18-February-2010
- ↑ Sherry Stein, Letter to Martin Broughton, 28-January-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010
- ↑ Patrick Basham, Public Policy Sources, The Fraser Institute, 1-August-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010
- ↑ Press Release, Media Release, The Fraser Institute, 9-April-1999, Accessed Through Tobacco Archives 18-February-2010
- ↑ Patrick Basham, Public Policy Sources, The Fraser Institute, 1-August-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010
- ↑ Montreal Gazette, Blowing smoke, Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario), 2-July-2001