Patrick Basham

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Patrick Basham is an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute, and the founding Director (in 2006) of the Democracy Institute.[1] Basham was previously the founding director of the Social Affairs Centre at the Canadian Fraser Institute, and formerly Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He has published a number of books and contributed articles to a range of major US newspapers.[1] He contributed to the 2004 book Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints.

In December 2005 Basham wrote an article for the Washington Times which praised the Canadian Conservative Stephen Harper as "pro-free trade, pro-Iraq war, anti-Kyoto and socially conservative". Harper publicly objected, saying that the description "greatly oversimplifies my positions."[2] Harper went on to form a minority government after the January 2006 election.

Basham studied political science at Carleton University, the University of Houston and University of Cambridge, earning B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees respectively.[3]

Books

  • Butt Out! How Philip Morris Burned Ted Kennedy, the FDA & the Anti-Tobacco Movement, Democracy Institute, April 2009.
  • Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade, by John Luik, Patrick Basham, and Gio Gori. Social Affairs Unit, December 2006.
  • Gambling with Our Future? The Costs and Benefits of Legalized Gambling, by Patrick Basham and Karen White. The Christian Institute, 2002, 64pp
  • Sensible Solutions to the Urban Drug Problem, edited by Patrick Basham. Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2001.
  • Environmentalism and the Market Economy: A Model for a Green Earth (with Dr Kenneth Basham). (1995).

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