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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.Gambling With Our Future
In this report, we explicitly take a wide view, literally and figuratively, of the ramifications of legalized gambling. We investigate legalized gambling in four countries: Canada, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
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Patrick Basham
Patrick Basham teaches in the Government Department at the Johns Hopkins University. He is Founding Director of the Democracy Institute,a research organization based in Washington, DC. Mr Basham previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, where he is currently an Adjunct Scholar. Prior to joining Cato, he served as the Director of the Social Affairs Centre at The Fraser Institute. He has written and edited books, scholarly articles, and studies on a variety of domestic and foreign-policy topics, including campaign finance, democratization, education reform, obesity, political marketing, and the regulation of risk. A frequent media commentator, his articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, Australian Financial Review, National Post, and Globe & Mail. Mr Basham earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from Carleton University, the University of Houston, and Cambridge University, respectively.… Read more -
Karen White
Karen White holds a Bachelor of Public Relations from Mount Saint Vincent University and an MBA from Saint Mary's University,Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ms White has a background in public relations, marketing, and market research. She was an intern at The Fraser Institute during the summer of 1999 and is now working in public relations at Argyle Rowland Worldwide in Toronto, Ontario.… Read more