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.

Through the Fraser Institute who were funded by the tobacco industry, Basham worked as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry as recently as the year 2000[9][10][11][12]Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag Public Policy Sources], The Fraser Institute, 1-August-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010</ref>

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

  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
  9. ↑ Sherry Stein, Letter to Adrain Payne at British American Tobacco, 28-July-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 18-February-2010
  10. ↑ Sherry Stein, Letter to Martin Broughton, 28-January-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010
  11. ↑ Patrick Basham, Public Policy Sources, The Fraser Institute, 1-August-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010
  12. ↑ Press Release, Media Release, The Fraser Institute, 9-April-1999, Accessed Through Tobacco Archives 18-February-2010
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