Strategic use and social taming – opening up the doctrine of market competition in public procurement

Sack, Detlef; Sarter, Eva Katharina

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“…6. In the European Union, public procurement is subject to both primary and secondary law, which impose important limitations on the use of public procurement as a means to foster social policy goals and as a tool for the regulation of labour (Caranta and Trybus, 2010; Sack and Sarter, 2018 Seikel, 2015). While restrictions to fundamental freedoms may be justified by an overriding public interest, the ECJ also established that not all stipulations relating to working conditions and wages can be seen as an overriding public interest.…”

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Collective bargaining, minimum wages and public procurement in Germany: Regulatory adjustments to the neoliberal drift of a coordinated market economy

Sack

Sarter

2018

Journal of Industrial Relations

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This article analyses different types of labour clauses in public procurement regulation that have been enacted in Germany, a coordinated market economy that has experienced a ‘neoliberal drift’ including the decline of the traditional governance of labour and contracting out. Based on an analysis of relevant regulations adopted by the 16 Germany federal states, the article corroborates insights into the prominent role of left parties advocating for labour clauses in public procurement on a much broader empirical foundation than previous research. It adds to scholarly knowledge by revealing that the relative comparative advantage of regions with lower wage levels inhibits labour clauses in federal political systems. It finds that centre-right parties are willing to stipulate certain labour clauses in order to protect small-and medium-sized enterprises, which are core parts of their electoral support base.

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Collective bargaining, minimum wages and public procurement in Germany: Regulatory adjustments to the neoliberal drift of a coordinated market economy

Sack

Sarter

2018

Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…Government's use of public purchases to achieve social and environmental goals is known as social public purchasing (Arrowsmith 2010; Bengo 2018; Brammer and Walker 2011; Kanapinskas, Plytnikas, and Tvaronavičienė 2014; Leiser and Wolter 2017; McCrudden 2004; Mendoza Jiménez, Hernández López, and Franco Escobar 2019; Sack and Sarter 2018; Uttam and Roos 2015; Wontner et al 2020). Examples of social public purchasing include set‐asides that seek to address a single issue, such as the purchase of products from minority‐owned businesses to address social inequalities, the purchase of environmentally friendly goods to reduce negative environmental impacts, and vouchers to encourage the adoption of low‐carbon emitting vehicles to address climate change.…”

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Social Public Purchasing: Addressing a Critical Void in Public Purchasing Research

Hafsa

Darnall

Bretschneider

2021

Public Administration Review

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Since governments are the largest buyers globally, they have enormous purchasing power. Government purchasing, therefore, has potential to be leveraged to improve social outcomes, such as helping disadvantaged communities, ensuring labor rights, and minimizing negative environmental impacts. However, as yet, there is little understanding about social public purchasing research in the field of public administration. We provide a theoretical framework for organizing research around social public purchasing. We then survey both the scholarly and practitioner research on social public purchasing in order to develop a clear understanding of the critical knowledge gaps and the potential for important social public purchasing research.

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Fazit: Repolitisierung der ‚tiefen‘ Vermarktlichung – das Beispiel öffentliche Auftragsvergabe

Jaehrling

Stiehm

2022

Der Staat Als ‚Guter Auftraggeber‘? Öffentliche Auftragsvergabe Zwischen Vermarktlichung Und Sozialpolitisierung

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ZusammenfassungDie Entwicklungen in der öffentlichen Auftragsvergabe lassen sich einerseits als Lehrstück für den übergreifenden Trend einer 'tiefen' Vermarktlichung begreifen, der seit den 1990er Jahren selbst in bereits marktförmig organisierten gesellschaftlichen Teilbereichen eine Intensivierung von Wettbewerbsprinzipien befördert hat. Dennoch ist dies nur ein Teil des Bildes. Denn der rote Faden, der sich durch unsere Befunde zieht, ist trotz allem eine Doppelbewegung von Vermarktlichung und ‚Einbettung‘ (Polanyi) zugunsten gesellschaftlicher Ziele jenseits bloßer ökonomischer Freiheitsrechte. Das liegt wesentlich daran, dass es über alle Schauplätze der Entscheidungsfindung hinweg zu einer (Re-)Politisierung – im Sinne einer Infragestellung, Pluralisierung und Konkurrenz der dort produzierten Normen durch politische und zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure – gekommen ist. Dieser Politisierung an den verschiedenen Schauplätzen der vergabespezifischen Entscheidungsfindung gilt das Hauptaugenmerk dieser Zusammenfassung. Mit dem Begriff der 'variegated de-marketization' wird für eine Forschungsagenda geworben, die sich für die Entwicklungsdynamiken und Erscheinungsformen real existierender Ansätze einer nicht-neoliberalen Politik und Praxis interessiert, ohne zugleich die anhaltenden Effekte der ‚tiefen Vermarktlichung‘ außer Acht zu lassen.

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Strategic use and social taming – opening up the doctrine of market competition in public procurement

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Collective bargaining, minimum wages and public procurement in Germany: Regulatory adjustments to the neoliberal drift of a coordinated market economy

Collective bargaining, minimum wages and public procurement in Germany: Regulatory adjustments to the neoliberal drift of a coordinated market economy

Social Public Purchasing: Addressing a Critical Void in Public Purchasing Research

Fazit: Repolitisierung der ‚tiefen‘ Vermarktlichung – das Beispiel öffentliche Auftragsvergabe

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