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First published in 1967, Field Administration provides a useful introduction to a much-neglected aspect of administration. Every government finds it necessary to decentralise its administration. But in Britain much more attention has been paid to devolution, i.e., to local government, than to deconcentration, i.e., to local and regional administrative organisation, or what Mr. Smith calls field administration. Neither aspect of decentralisation can be fully understood in isolation and one great merit of this volume is it study of interrelationships between the two. To illustrate the general principles involved, case studies are provided of three kinds of field administration: the functional (the Ministry of Agriculture in the U.K.), the integrated prefectoral system (Burma) and the unintegrated prefectoral system (Northern Nigeria). This book will be of interest to students of political science, government and administration.

New Drugs, Fair Prices addresses the important question of how we might get the innovative new medicines we need at prices we can afford. Today, this debate is impassioned but sterile. One side calls for price controls, discounting their impact on investment in innovation. The other points to miraculous new therapies, disregarding their affordability and social inequity. This polarized argument creates more heat than light, threatening the social contract between the industry and society on which pharmaceutical innovation depends. This ground-breaking book takes a wholly new perspective on the issue and raises the debate to a more informed and productive level. Drawing on interviews with more than 70 experts across the pharmaceutical innovation world and combining a diverse literature from scientific, political, economic and business domains, it describes how a sustainable and affordable supply of new medicines is possible only by balancing pharmaceutical innovation's complex, adaptive ecosystem. By considering how each of the ecosystem's seven habitats work and interact with the others, it makes a comprehensive set of recommendations for achieving that ecosystem balance. The core message of New Drugs, Fair Prices is important to anyone who ever has needed or will ever need a medicine: we can have a sustainable supply of new medicines that are both innovative and affordable if we manage the pharmaceutical innovation ecosystem intelligently.

"This second edition examines judicial independence as an aspect of democratization, based on the premise that democracy cannot be consolidated without the rule of law of which judicial independence is an indispensable part. It pays particular attention to the restraints placed upon judicial independence and examines the reforms which are being applied, or remain to be adopted, in order to guard against the different kinds of interference which prevent judicial decisions being taken in a wholly impartial way. Focusing on the growing authoritarianism in the new democracies of Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, the book analyses the paradox of judicial activism arising from the independence endowed upon the judiciary and the rights bestowed on citizens by post-authoritarian constitutions. Finally, it asks how judicial accountability can be made compatible with the preservation of judicial independence when the concept of an accountable, independent judiciary appears to be a contradiction in terms. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of judicial studies, democratization and autocratization studies, constitutionalism, global governance, and more broadly to comparative government/politics, human rights and comparative public law"--

Foreword and acknowledgements -- The future of pharma : reprise -- Introduction and an invitation to skip a chapter -- An important industry at risk -- The best idea anyone has ever had -- The biologists got there first -- Applying evolutionary theory to the pharmaceutical and medical technology sectors -- Explaining the industry's past -- Predicting the future of pharma and medtech -- Practical implications for an evolving industry -- Watching the future unfold -- An immeasurably superior power -- Introduction: the emergent pressures of selection -- Selection pressures emerging from the social environment -- Selection pressures emerging from the technological environment -- Asking the right questions -- Evolution is cleverer than you are -- Introduction: Orgel's second law -- Technological innovator species emerging in the government payer habitat -- Technological innovator species emerging in patient payer habitats -- Operationally excellent species emerging in the government payer habitat -- Operationally excellent species emerging in patient payer habitats -- Customer intimate species emerging in the government payer habitat -- Customer intimate species emerging in patient payer habitats -- A big bang of life science business models -- Guiding the blind watchmaker -- Introduction: from description to prescription -- Which fitness peak(s) should we climb? -- What capabilities does our new business model need? -- How should we design a capable holobiont? -- How do we build our core capabilities? -- References -- Index

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Foreword by Andreas Fibig -- Foreword by G. Steven Burrill -- Part I A Stalling Industry -- Chapter 1 Whither Pharma? The World's Most Important Industry at a Fork in the Road -- Chapter 2 Universal Acid: A Way to Understand the Complex, Adaptive Pharmaceutical Industry -- Part II A Co-Evolving Industry -- Chapter 3 An Evolving Social Environment -- Chapter 4 An Evolving Technological Environment -- Chapter 5 The Evolution of the Pharmaceutical Industry -- Chapter 6 The Speciation of Pharma: The New Business Models that Will Transform the Industry -- Part III A Changed Industry -- Chapter 7 Sex, Forced Moves and Good Tricks: What New Capabilities Will Be Needed to Survive and Thrive in the Future of Pharma? -- Chapter 8 Flat, Focussed Tribes: Organizational Structures in the Future of Pharma -- Chapter 9 Gales of Creative Destruction: The Turmoil Ahead of the Pharmaceutical Industry -- Epilogue: Unanswered Questions and Speculative Answers -- Appendix 1: A Pragmatic Research Approach -- Appendix 2: List of Research Interviewees -- Index -- Footnote -- ch01fn01.

Clarifying the growing role of the Latin American Catholic Church as an agent of social change, Brian H. Smith discusses the prophetic function of the Chilean Church during the country's metamorphosis from Conservative to Christian Democratic to Marxist to repressive military regime. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important bo

As government officials and political activists are becoming increasingly aware, international nonprofit agencies have an important political dimension: although not self-serving, these private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seek social changes of which many of their financial contributors are unaware. As PVOs and NGOs receive increasing subsidies from their home governments in the United States, Canada, and Europe, they are moving away from short-term relief commitments in developing countries and toward longer-term goals in health, education, train

Clarifying the growing role of the Latin American Catholic Church as an agent of social change, Brian H. Smith discusses the prophetic function of the Chilean Church during the country's metamorphosis from Conservative to Christian Democratic to Marxist to repressive military regime. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important bo.