Reputation and Power
Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Published:21st May '10
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This book explores the history and influence of the FDA, revealing how its reputation shapes its regulatory power and authority in the pharmaceutical industry.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stands as the most powerful regulatory agency globally, but how did it attain such influence? Reputation and Power delves into the intricate history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, highlighting the agency's organizational reputation as both a source of its remarkable power and a significant constraint. Daniel Carpenter meticulously traces how the FDA has cultivated a reputation for competence and vigilance over the last century, enabling it to oversee a robust pharmaceutical industry while resisting pressures to limit its authority.
Throughout Reputation and Power, Carpenter explores the interplay between the FDA and various stakeholders, including Congress, drug companies, advocacy groups, and international entities. He illustrates how the agency's regulatory power has shaped business practices, medical standards, and scientific research not only in the United States but across the globe. The book provides fresh insights into pivotal moments in pharmaceutical history, such as the therapeutic revolution of the mid-20th century, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and the evolving landscape of drug regulation today.
This comprehensive study reveals how reputation influences the power dynamics of government agencies. Carpenter's work sheds light on the complexities of FDA regulation, documenting the challenges posed by scientific certainties and political uncertainties. Reputation and Power is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the intricate relationship between regulation, public policy, and health, establishing itself as a crucial text for future discussions on the FDA's role in society.
Winner of the 2011 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association "Reputation and Power is ... and authoritative and well researched book. Political scientists will admire Carpenter's scholarship. It is, indeed, a good mix of history, politics, gossip, and intrigue."--Michael Rawlins, Lancet "In his massive, magisterial Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA, the Harvard political scientist Daniel Carpenter provides both a history of the agency and an analysis of how it gained and flexed its most important regulatory power, the ability to keep new drugs off the market. Carpenter carefully documents the ways FDA bureaucrats have worked to exploit opportunities to expand their influence and reshape how the drug industry and the medical profession operate."--Keith E. Wittington, Reason "This immense volume considers the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on the connection between the FDA's stellar reputation and its ability to wield power as a regulatory body. The book is exceptional, successfully combining an array of methodological approaches."--Choice "Carpenter's book has much to offer. Reputation and Power will be a valuable resource for anyone who is interested in understanding US pharmaceutical regulation and the debates surrounding it."--Mary K. Olson, Health Affairs "This book succeeds quite well in achieving its ambitious objectives. It provides a compelling and useful account for the exceptional role of the FDA in American society, government, and regulation. Perhaps more importantly for organizational scholars, it provides a very rich case study of the evolution of an organization's reputation, image and power and how these combine to affect its performance."--Thomas D'Aunno, Administrative Science Quarterly "Carpenter's book was ten years in the making and it shows. The research is wide ranging and groundbreaking and the impressive range of materials will certainly help expand the field... Reputation and Power is essential reading for modern historians of medicine. In a renewed climate of interest in regulation, it is a sober addition to the previous polemical debates about the world of pharmaceuticals and their regulation and is sure to generate a broad discussion."--Lucas Richert, Social History of Medicine "Reputation and Power ... is a masterful study in the best tradition of political science and will stand as a definitive treatment of regulation, and not merely of the FDA's policies and practices. Along with his earlier work, this book will be an essential part of the emerging study of the American administrative state, whether that study takes place in political science, history, sociology, law, or, indeed, in schools of medicine and pharmacology."--John Ferejohn, Perspectives on Politics
- Winner of Allan Sharlin Memorial Award 2011
ISBN: 9780691141800
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1162g
856 pages