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Welcome to the Democracy Institute

The Democracy Institute is a politically independent public policy research organization based in Washington and London. Founded in 2006, this think tank serves to further public education through the production and dissemination of accessible commentary and scholarship. The Democracy Institute aims to provide a balanced and thoughtful perspective on topical issues, promoting open and rational debate based on evidence rather than ideology.

We commonly address public policy in comparative terms. Many of our research projects, therefore, have a transatlantic or international flavor. We are currently conducting and commissioning work in the following areas: democratization; education policy; electoral studies; the European Union; fiscal studies; health care; international relations; obesity; and the regulation of risk. The Democracy Institute welcomes enquiries, exchanges of ideas, and contributions from individuals or groups with an interest in these issues.

An Advisory Council, comprised of internationally renowned scholars and writers in a variety of disciplines, guides the work of the Democracy Institute's research staff. Collectively, they seek to challenge conventional wisdom, stimulate policy debate, and enlighten the public conversation.

Please email comments and questions to: info@democracyinstitute.org


DI News Alerts:

   

Jeremy Lott's new book, The Warm Bucket Brigade: The Story of the American Vice Presidency, March 11, 2008
   
Patrick Basham and John Luik on the obesity 'epidemic' in the British Medical Journal, February 2008
   
Patrick Basham and Dan Mitchell's Fraser Institute flat tax study, January 2008
   
Patrick Basham on Kenya's election campaign in the East African Standard, December 5, 2007
   
Patrick Basham and John Luik's nutrition labeling study, December 2007
   
Patrick Basham's homeschooling study, October 2007
   
John Luik’s study, A Picture of Health? Why Graphic Warnings Don’t Work, December 2006 John Luik's study, A Picture of Health? Why Graphic Warnings Don't Work, December 2006
   

Patrick Basham on FDA tobacco regulation in the

New York Times, August 3, 2007

 

Iraq Study Group Report -- Three years ago, Patrick Basham forecast the current violence and political turmoil in Iraq. Read his January 5, 2004, prescient Cato Institute report here.

 

"Four big, fat myths," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, Sunday Telegraph, November 26 2006

 

   
Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade by Patrick Basham, Gio Gori and John Luik. Social Affairs Unit book release December 14, 2006

Ideology Masked As Scientific Truth: The Debate About Advertising and Children by John Luik, Washington Legal Foundation, 2006


DI in the Media:

Patrick Basham on Kenya's power sharing Grand Coalition in the East African Standard, March 31, 2008

Marian Tupy on the fall of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe on National Review Online, March 28, 2008

Patrick Basham and John Luik on removing obese children from their family homes on Spiked Online, March 27, 2008

Patrick Basham on Kenya's Truth Commission in the East African Standard, March 22, 2008

Patrick Basham and John Luik on the global campaign to ban junk food ads on Spiked Online, March 19, 2008

Patrick Basham on John McCain's presidential campaign on National Review Online, March 10, 2008

Patrick Basham on the flat tax in Fraser Forum, February 2008

Patrick Basham on Russia's parliamentary election in the Washington Times, December 8, 2007

Patrick Basham on Russia's parliamentary election in the Ottawa Citizen, December 5, 2007

Patrick Basham and John Luik on the unproven link between food, fat, and cancer on National Review Online, November 26, 2007

Patrick Basham and John Luik on weight and disease on Spiked Online, November 13, 2007

Dominic Lawson on Diet Nation in The Independent, November 9, 2007

Patrick Basham and John Luik on food and cancer on Spiked Online, November 7, 2007

Patrick Basham on US-French relations in La Tribune, November 6, 2007

Patrick Basham on the obesity 'epidemic' in The Independent, October 23, 2007

Gerry Nicholls on free speech in theWindsor Star, September 9, 2007

Patrick Basham on Putin's Russia in the Economist, September 5, 2007

Gerry Nicholls on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Globe & Mail, August 29, 2007

Gerry Nicholls on freedom in the Edmonton Sun, August 13, 2007

Patrick Basham on government risk policy in the Risk of Freedom Briefing, July 2007

Patrick Basham in the new campaign finance documentary, "Mr. Schneider Goes to Washington," Washington premiere, July 25, 2007

Patrick Basham and John Luik on Live Earth and climate change in the Washington Times, July 11, 2007

Patrick Basham and John Luik on the UK smoking ban on Spiked Online, July 11, 2007

Patrick Basham and John Luik on Live Earth and climate change in Libertad Digital (Spain), July 9, 2007

Gerry Nicholls on the Canadian political scene in the Toronto Sun, July 9, 2007

Gerry Nicholls on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Toronto Star, July 5, 2007

Gerry Nicholls on democracy, Canadian style, in the Edmonton Sun, June 18, 2007

Patrick Basham podcast on the French presidential election, May 9, 2007

Patrick Basham on democracy and the war on terror in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 6, 2007

Gerry Nicholls on selling out conservatism in the National Post, April 27, 2007

Patrick Basham on France's Nicolas Sarkozy in the San Francisco Chronicle, April 26, 2007

Patrick Basham and John Luik on the dangers of dieting in Spiked, March 22, 2007

Patrick Basham on President Bush's Iraq speech in Colombia's El Tiempo, January 17, 2007

Patrick Basham on President Bush's Iraq speech in the Ottawa Citizen, January 11, 2007

Patrick Basham on the Iraq Study Group report in the Ottawa Citizen, December 8, 2006

"GOP Keeps House Majority" predicts Patrick Basham in the American Spectator, November 6, 2006

Chris Preble on Japan and nuclear weapons in the Dallas Morning News, October 22, 2006

Marian Tupy on the rise of populist parties in Central Europe in the Wall Street Journal, October 20, 2006

Chris Preble on North Korean nukes in the Washington Examiner, October 20, 2006

Jeremy Lott on religion and politics in USA Today, October 16, 2006

Chris Edwards on state and local government fiscal policy in the Wall Street Journal, October 12, 2006


DI Events:

Risk conference at Wilton Park, Sussex, England, March 26 to 29, 2007

Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade talk at the IEA in London, March 22, 2007.



Director


Patrick Basham

Advisory Council

Nigel Ashford
Institute for Humane Studies

Jason Clemens
Fraser Institute

Veronique de Rugy
American Enterprise Institute

Jamie Dettmer
Cato Institute

Chris Edwards
Cato Institute

Ivan Eland
Independent Institute

Jeremy Lott
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Michael Mosbacher
Social Affairs Unit

Gerry Nicholls
Senior Fellow

Charles Pena
George Washington University

Christopher Preble
Cato Institute

Marian Tupy
Cato Institute

Martin Zelder
University of Chicago & Northwestern University

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