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Politics of Favoritism in Public Procurement in Turkey: Reconfigurations of Dependency Networks in the Akp Era

by Esra Çeviker Gürakar
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781349955138
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 127
  • Original Price: EUR 54.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Softcover Repri
  • Item Weight: 184 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Public Policy / General, World / Middle Eastern, and Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice

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This book provides substantiation to claims of favoritism in public procurement in Turkey in the twenty-first century. Through an analysis of nearly fifty thousand high value contracts between 2004 and 2011, the study indicates that the AKP majority government has used public procurement as an influential tool 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 services sectors-namely in the TOKİ projects and municipal procurements. In addition, this book demonstrates how the more than 150 legal amendments to the new Public Procurement Law in Turkey, drafted with the pull of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-World Bank nexus, have increased the use of less competitive procurement methods and discretion in awarding contracts. Relying on empirical research, this timely book provides careful, quantitative analysis of datasets in its contentions of favoritism in Turkey's public procurement process.

Esra Çeviker Gürakar is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her research focuses on political economy, institutional economics, and law and economics. Her recent papers on public procurement in Turkey include "Business Networks and Public Procurement in Turkey", "Political Connections and Public Procurement in Turkey: Evidence from the Construction Work Contracts" and "Does Public E-Procurement Deliver What It Promises? Empirical Evidence from Turkey." She can be contacted at esragurakar@gmail.com.

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