Abstract
Public procurement, which comprises substantial part of governments’ spending and countries’ GDPs, has long been used as a means to support Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) development and to generate sustainable growth. Yet, as one of the most important areas where the government officials and the private sector interact extensively, public procurement processes are open to favoritism and corruption. In Turkey, the new Public Procurement Law (PPL), which was drafted with the pull of the European Union (EU)–International Monetary Fund (IMF)–World Bank (WB) nexus and enacted in 2003, has been amended more than 150 times by the AKP majority government over the last decade. All in all, these legal changes have increased discretion in awarding contracts and heightened doubts on the upsurge in favoritism in contract award processes in particular and rise in crony capitalism in general.
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Gürakar, E.Ç. (2016). Introduction and Overview. In: Politics of Favoritism in Public Procurement in Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59185-2_1
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