Essay: the political logic of regulatory error.

Daniel Carpenter; Michael M. Ting

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Essay: the political logic of regulatory error.

November 30, 2005

Carpenter D, Ting MM. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2005;4(10):819-23.

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The authors draw on political science to discuss factors that contribute to errors in pharmaceutical regulation.

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