{{Short description|Politician from the United Kingdom}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} right|thumb|Ashford in 2015. '''Nigel Ashford''' (born 1952) is a British-born, U.S.-based academic and author, primarily in the field of politics. He serves as the Senior Programs Officer at the Institute for Humane Studies.

==Career== Ashford was a Professor of Politics at Staffordshire University, where he was also a Jean Monnet Scholar.<ref name="ihs">{{Cite web |url=http://www.theihs.org/PeopleDetails.aspx?id=1003 |title=Institute for Humane Studies: Nigel Ashford |access-date=17 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613031057/http://theihs.org/PeopleDetails.aspx?id=1003 |archive-date=13 June 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He served as the Director the Principles of a Free Society Project at the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation in Sweden. He was a recipient of the International Anthony Fisher Trust Prize.<ref name="ihs"/>

Ashford serves as the Senior Programs Officer at the Institute for Humane Studies. He also served on the Advisory Council of the Democracy Institute.<ref name=DI>Democracy Institute, [http://www.democracyinstitute.org/AboutUs.htm About Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126092444/http://www.democracyinstitute.org/AboutUs.htm |date=26 November 2010 }}, accessed 8 August 2010</ref>

==Bibliography== * ''US Politics Today'' (1999) * ''Public Policy and the Impact of the New Right'' (1994) * ''A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought'' (1991)

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