Patrick Basham


Patrick Basham is a former adjunct scholar and senior fellow of the Cato Institute, and the founding Director of the Democracy Institute. Basham was previously the founding director of the Social Affairs Centre at the Canadian Fraser Institute. He has published a number of books and contributed articles to a range of major US newspapers.
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.

Books

He contributed to the 2004 book Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints, edited by David Haugen.
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." Harper went on to form a minority government after the January 2006 election.