Reputation and power : organizational image and pharmaceutical regulation at the FDA
by
Carpenter, Daniel P., 1967- author.
Title
:
Reputation and power : organizational image and pharmaceutical regulation at the FDA
Author
:
Carpenter, Daniel P., 1967- author.
ISBN
:
9781400835119
Publication Information
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (xx, 802 pages) : illustrations, map.
Series
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Princeton studies in American politics : historical, international, and comparative perspectives
Princeton studies in American politics.
Abstract
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential? And how exactly does it wield its extraordinary power? Reputation and Power traces the history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, revealing how the agency's organizational reputation has been the primary source of its power, yet also one of its ultimate constraints. Daniel Carpenter describes how the FDA cultivated a reputation for competence and vigilance throughout the last century, and how this organizational image has enabled the agency to regulate an industr.
Corporate Subject
:
United States. Food and Drug Administration.
United States Food and Drug Administration.
United States. Food and Drug Administration. (OCoLC)fst00549734
Subject Term
:
Pharmaceutical policy -- United States.
Drugs -- Research -- United States.
Drug Approval.
Consumer Product Safety.
Government Agencies -- history.
Government Regulation.
Organizational Culture.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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Online Library | E-Book | 374912-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |