Public Procurement and the Welfare State

Public Purchasing Between Technical Tool and Socio-Political Practice
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-26011-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Public procurement, the purchasing of goods, works, and services by public bodies, is a crucial part of state activity. It ensures that vital services are available, infrastructure is constructed and maintained, and public bodies are supplied with the goods they need to operate.

Public Procurement and the Welfare State offers fresh insight into this important field and advances a novel framework for exploring, understanding, and analysing this important area of state activity. Detailing the multi- faceted nature of public procurement, E.K. Sarter examines public procurement as a technical tool for safeguarding the availability of goods, works, and services, a social and political act, a policy tool, and a space for negotiation. This volume advances a novel approach to understanding and studying public procurement, one that centres decision- making processes and the power relations that underlie and shape public purchasing decisions and processes, and thereby their outcomes.

Offering a timely and holistic framework for understanding public spending, this book is an essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, political science, public and social policy, welfare state studies, and public administration as well as those interested in economic justice and social innovation.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarter, E.K.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Verhaltensökonomik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft, Besteuerung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Public procurement as a technical tool; 2. Public procurement as a social and political act; 3. Public procurement as a regulatory tool; 4. Public procurement as a negotiation space; 5. Approaching a holistic perspective on public procurement

Über Autor(innen)

E.K. Sarter is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, UK.