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100 1 _aMAOR, Moshe
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245 1 0 _aA Scientific standard and an agency's legal independence :
_bwich of these reputation protection mechanisms is less susceptible to political moves?
260 _aMalden, MA :
_bBlackwell Publishers,
_cDecember 2007
520 3 _aThis article presents a model that introduces a scientific ‘gold’ standard as a reputation protection mechanism operating alongside an agency’s legal independence. It tries to gauge which of the two is less susceptible to political moves. The model suggests that the scientific ‘gold’ standard for agency decisions is less susceptible to political moves because of its important role as a legitimating device for both government ministers and regulators. Government ministers are able to address multiple audiences and even to respond to aggressive strategies by powerful interest groups by undermining one reputation protection mechanism (that is, an agency’s independence) without weakening the other (that is, the scientific barrier for granting full-subsidy status to treatments that lack comparative therapeutic advantage). This implies that drug reimbursement mechanisms that provide a high quality of drug evaluation are designed to be effective
773 0 8 _tPublic Administration : an international quarterly
_g85, 4, p. 961-978
_dMalden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, December 2007
_xISSN 00333298
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_cTiago
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
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