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Book Synopsis Politics of Favoritism in Public Procurement in Turkey by : Esra Çeviker Gürakar
Download or read book Politics of Favoritism in Public Procurement in Turkey written by Esra Çeviker Gürakar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, through an analysis of 49,355 high value public procurement contracts awarded between 2004 and 2011, provides systematic evidence on favoritism in public procurement in Turkey. Public procurement is one of the main areas where the government and the private sector interact extensively and is thus open to favoritism and corruption. In Turkey, the new Public Procurement Law, which was drafted with the pull of the EU-IMF-WB nexus, has been amended more than 150 times by the AKP government. In addition to examining favoritism, this book also demonstrates how the legal amendments have increased the use of less competitive procurement methods and discretion in awarding contracts. The results reveal that the AKP majority government has used public procurement as an influential tool both to increase its electoral success, build its own elites and finance politics. The use of public procurement for rent creation and distribution is found to be particularly extensive in the construction and the services sector through the TOKİ projects and the Municipal procurements.
Book Synopsis Defense Procurement In The Federal Republic Of Germany by : Regina H.E. Cowen
Download or read book Defense Procurement In The Federal Republic Of Germany written by Regina H.E. Cowen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. Based on the theme that defense procurement serves as an instrument of alliance and domestic politics, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of post-war West German approaches to and experience with procurement strategies. Dr. Cowen explores how successive German governments have used military procurement to facilitate the rehabilitation of the new West German state and later to consolidate the German position within the alliance. The author shows that by the mid-1970s the Federal Republic had succeeded in its procurement policy, acting as a serious partner for defense projects in Europe and building a flourishing defense industry. The book's final chapters describe the structural tensions between competing procurement objectives that have recently emerged. The FRG must decide whether to continue to maintain a whole range of defense industrial capacities or to specialize nationally and purchase other necessary commodities in the United States. According to the author, national specialization is not seriously considered by the German government. Such a step, the author suggests, would diminish Germany's role in the alliance and jeopardize one of its foremost foreign policy goals: equality with Great Britain and France
Book Synopsis The Politics of Procurement by : Aaron Plamondon
Download or read book The Politics of Procurement written by Aaron Plamondon and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993, Canada’s Liberal Party cancelled an order to replace the navy’s Sea King helicopter. It claimed that the Tory plan was too expensive, but the cancellation itself actually cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Aaron Plamondon connects this incident to the larger evolution of defence procurement in Canada, revealing that partisan politics, rather than a desire to increase the military’s capabilities, have driven the military procurement process. This saga of the government playing havoc with weapons acquisition offers an explanation for, and clues for resolving, the under-equipped state of Canada’s military.
Book Synopsis Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa by : S.N. Nyeck
Download or read book Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa written by S.N. Nyeck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa. Through a bottom-up approach to case studies and comparative analyses, scholars, practitioners, and social activists write about the organizational mechanisms and implementation gaps in public procurement governance in light of the general premises of national reform. Reforming the ways in which government purchases works, goods, and services from the private sector is one of the most sweeping policy reform undertaken in Africa in the past decade. Despite the transnational scope of policy change, very little is known about the mechanisms of public procurement governance at the subnational level. The argument in this volume is that policy reforms that mitigate contractual hazards along the three-dimensional “law-politics-business matrix” are more likely to bring about meaningful institutional transformation and broader social accountability. Key to substantive transformation of public procurement is the revitalization and professionalization of the public sector to meet the opportunities and challenges of development by contract.
Book Synopsis State and Local Government Procurement by : Danielle Conway-Jones
Download or read book State and Local Government Procurement written by Danielle Conway-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public Procurement, Corruption and the Crisis of Governance in Africa by : Nirmala Dorasamy
Download or read book Public Procurement, Corruption and the Crisis of Governance in Africa written by Nirmala Dorasamy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes a nexus between corruption in public procurement and the prevailing crisis of governance in Africa. The African continent is characterised by the growing concern for the deteriorating human security. In the midst of these woes, African political leaders are known for their stupendous wealth and riches through expropriation of national resources for personal benefits. This growing inequality in the continent has become a major driver for a series of violent and criminal activities, which have added to the worsening governance crisis. Thus, the abuse of public power for advancing private gain constitutes an impediment to effective public service delivery, thereby engendering a crisis of governance. The consequence of this is not limited to the socio-economic growth and welfare of citizens, but it often also jeopardizes the democratic credentials and objectives of the state.
Book Synopsis Congress and Defense Spending by : Barry Rundquist
Download or read book Congress and Defense Spending written by Barry Rundquist and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War II, the U.S. government has spent more than $10 trillion on defense. Although everyone in the United States must pay taxes supporting defense contracts, ten states have obtained 75 percent of all defense contracts and expenditures. In Congress and Defense Spending , Barry S. Rundquist and Thomas M. Carsey examine how the distribution of defense contracts is influenced by the interaction of state and local economies with the organization of Congress and how previous state representation on defense committees has affected current committee representation.
Book Synopsis New Weapons, Old Politics by : Thomas L. McNaugher
Download or read book New Weapons, Old Politics written by Thomas L. McNaugher and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans spend more than $100 billion a year to buy weapons, but no one likes the process that brings these weapons into existence. The problem, McNaugher shows, is that the technical needs of engineers and military planners clash sharply with the political demands of Congress. McNaugher examines weapons procurement since World War II and shows how repeated efforts to improve weapons acquisition have instead increased the harmful intrusion of political pressures into that technical development and procurement process. Today's weapons are more complicated than their predecessors. So are the nation's military forces. The design of new systems and their integration into the force structure demand more care, time, and flexibility. Yet time and flexibility are precisely what political pressures remove from the acquisitions process. In a series of case studies and conceptual discussions, McNaugher tackles concerns at the heart of the debate about acquisition—the slow and heavily bureaucratic approach to development, the preference for ultimate weapons over well-organized and trained forces, and the counterproductive incentives facing the nation's defense firms. He calls for changes that run against the current fashion—less centralization or procurement, less haste in developing new weapons, and greater use of competition as a means of removing the development process from political oversight. Above all, McNaugher shows how the United States tries to buy research and development on the cheap, and how costly this has been. The nation can improve its acquisition process, he concludes, only when it recognizes the need to pay for the full exploration of new technology.
Book Synopsis Summary of the Report of the Commission on Government Procurement by : United States. Commission on Government Procurement
Download or read book Summary of the Report of the Commission on Government Procurement written by United States. Commission on Government Procurement and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Regulation Public Procurement - National and International Perspectives by : Sue Arrowsmith
Download or read book Regulation Public Procurement - National and International Perspectives written by Sue Arrowsmith and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2000-04-17 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three international leaders in public procurement law fully explain how the procurement award process must be managed to achieve its goals in global market economy.
Author :United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economy in Government Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :16 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Economy in Government Procurement and Property Management by : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economy in Government
Download or read book Economy in Government Procurement and Property Management written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economy in Government and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Procurement and Public Management by : Steven Kelman
Download or read book Procurement and Public Management written by Steven Kelman and published by A E I Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using federal procurement of computer systems, the author shows the effects of practices designed to prevent collusion between vendors and officials.
Book Synopsis Navigating Government Procurement by :
Download or read book Navigating Government Procurement written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating Government Procurement is an authoritative, insiders perspective on the strategic thinking behind drafting and negotiating government contracts with vendors. Featuring state and municipal directors of procurement as well as procurement attorneys from across the country, this book provides a broad yet comprehensive overview of the challenges unique to purchasing goods and services on behalf of government agencies and entities. These leaders articulate the finer points of the procurement process and the best practices required for working with government contractors, from soliciting bids and complying with regulatory requirements to setting enterprise-wide standards for frequently purchased commodities. Additionally, the authors discuss the impact of politics and the economy on government procurement procedures while offering advice on maintaining ethical operation standards and working with agency budgets. The different niches represented enable readers to get inside some of the great minds in government today, as these experts reveal the secrets and challenges behind how the government obtains goods and services.
Book Synopsis Making Politics Work for Development by : World Bank
Download or read book Making Politics Work for Development written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.
Book Synopsis Benchmarking Public Procurement 2016 by : World Bank Group
Download or read book Benchmarking Public Procurement 2016 written by World Bank Group and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public procurement accounts for around one-fifth of global gross domestic product (GDP). Given its size the public procurement market can improve public sector performance, promote national competitiveness, drive domestic economic growth, and boost economic development. Launched at the request of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group, Benchmarking Public Procurement presents actionable indicators to help countries identify and monitor policies and regulations that impact how private sector companies do business with the government in 77 economies. The Benchmarking Public Procurement 2016 report is organized under two parts: the public procurement life cycle and the complaint and reporting mechanisms indicators. Data was gathered using standardized questionnaires distributed to expert contributors in each economy. The project builds on the Doing Business methodology and aims to promote evidence-based decision making by governments and shed light over areas where few empirical data have been presented so far.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Federal Procurement Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :312 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Establishing Office of Federal Procurement Policy by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Federal Procurement
Download or read book Establishing Office of Federal Procurement Policy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Federal Procurement and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Commission on Government Procurement by : United States. Commission on Government Procurement
Download or read book Report of the Commission on Government Procurement written by United States. Commission on Government Procurement and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: