Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA

by Daniel Carpenter

Book Overview

How the FDA became the world's most powerful regulatory agency

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691141800
• ISBN13: 9780691141800
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 856 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"