Martha Derthick retired in 1999 from the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, where she was the Julia Allen Cooper Professor. She is the author of numerous books on American government, including: Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy (editor, 1999); Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American Government (1990); The Politics of Deregulation (with Paul J. Quirk, 1985); and Policymaking for Social Security (1979), which won the Kammerer Prize of the American Political Science Association as the best book of the year on American public policy. Before going to the University of Virginia, she was for twelve years a member of the Governmental Studies Program of The Brookings Institution, and was the program's director between 1978 and 1983. She has also taught at Dartmouth College, Stanford University, Harvard University, and Boston College.
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A New Way of Regulating Tobacco The Ordinary Politics of Legislation Ordinary Torts: Litigation Before It Was Substituted for Legislation The Drive for FDA Regulation The New Wave of Litigation The Changed Context of Policymaking The 1997 Settlement Dies in Congress The FDA Regulations Die in Court The Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 The Aftermath of the MSA After Litigation, A Return to Legislation Ordinary Politics versus Adversarial Legalism Chronology of Cigarette Regulation
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