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The Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption showcases the most innovative and exciting research being conducted in this important area of study, providing a comprehensive go-to reference for all who are interested in the topic.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the global race for health and ancillary goods amid global supply chain disruptions demonstrated that, when tested, all countries are incredibly vulnerable to fraud and corruption in public procurement, irrespective of their level of development. Yet despite the widespread nature of the problem, there remains a lack of in-depth, analytical, and cross-country investigations into public procurement corruption. This book addresses this gap by providing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, geographically balanced treatise on corruption in public procurement. It combines country-specific studies to allow readers to easily compare differing perspectives and approaches and overarching thematic chapters to reflect on new and cutting-edge issues in procurement and their implications for procurement corruption. Key sectors such as healthcare and infrastructure are considered, as well as the role of new technologies, in both combatting and enabling procurement corruption.
This Handbook provides academics, practitioners, and graduate researchers of public administration, law, and anti-corruption with all of the tools they need to understand the nuances of public procurement corruption around the world.
List of contents
Part I 1. An Overview of Corruption and Public Procurement 2. The Concept of Corruption Part II 3. Procurement corruption and artificial intelligence: between the potential of enabling data architectures and the constraints of due process requirements. 4. Data Analytics for Anti-Corruption in Public Procurement 5. Corruption and COVID-19 procurement 6. Emergency procurement and corruption 7. Corruption in healthcare procurement 8. Corruption and defence procurement 9. Corruption in public-private partnership procurement 10. Procurement corruption in the World Bank Group 11. Gender, procurement and corruption 12. Corruption in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises 13. Corruption and Beneficial ownership 14. How behavioural insights can enrich anti-corruption measures in public procurement 15. Whistleblowers and winning the battle against government contract fraud: You can't have one without the other 16. Corruption and Debarment Part III 17. Australia 18. Brazil 19. Columbia 20. France 21. Hungary 22. India 23. Israel 24. Italy 25. Kenya 26. Mexico 27. Nigeria 28. Russia 29. South Africa 30. Tanzania 31. Ukraine 32. United Kingdom 33. United States
About the author
Sope Williams is Professor of Public Procurement Law and Deputy Director of the African Procurement Law Unit at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Jessica Tillipman is Associate Dean for Government Procurement Law Studies and Government Contracts Advisory Council Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in Government Contracts Law, Practice & Policy at the George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC, USA.
Summary
The Routledge Handbook on Corruption in Public Procurement showcases the most innovative and exciting research being conducted in this important area of study, providing a comprehensive go-to reference for all who are interested in the topic.
