The FDA and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Price Governance Salon featuring Dan Carpenter, Harvard February 21, 2013 12:00pm to 1:30pm Carpenter, author of Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA will join us to discuss the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency Read more…
PIPE* Workshop: John Matsusaka, USC Marshall School of Business
The Power of Economic Interests Under Direct versus Representative Democracy
The power of economic interest groups to influence policy outcomes is a common theme in economics and political science. Most theories posit that interest group power arises from the ability to influence elected or appointed government officials, that is, by exploiting the representative part of democracy. This paper examines an unstated implication of these theories, that special interest influence will be weaker under direct democracy, when there are no representatives involved.