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  • Public procurement encompasses large amounts of public funds and is essential for the public sector to function. For the same reasons it is vulnerable to corruption, considering that the process presents both motives and opportunities for corruption. To control corruption, anticorruption literature suggests that civil society can play an important role in monitoring and sanctioning corrupt public officials. Consequently, the aim of this thesis is to combine these strands of literature and observe the possibility for a strong civil society to curb corruption within procurement. Nonetheless, accountability scholars argue that the ability for civil society to demand accountability should be considered on a contextual basis. Thus, in order to accurately capture the effect of civil society on procurement corruption, the study observes both the unconditional relationship and the relationship conditional upon level of transparency, meritocracy, and local media. The thesis studies the relationships in 175 EU regions and estimates the effect of civil society using OLS regression analysis. In contrast to the previous literature, the results of the study suggest that civil society is ineffective in the most favourable institutional conditions. Instead, civil society appears capable of reducing procurement corruption in regions characterized by low transparency and meritocracy respectively. This thesis interprets the results as indicative of institutions not only affecting the ability of civil society to demand accountability, but also the willingness for it do so. (xsd:string)
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  • http://www.konkurrensverket.se/globalassets/forskning/uppsatser/uppsats2019_fredrik-larsson.pdf. (EVS) (xsd:string)
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  • Monitoring corruption: civil society involvement in public procurement. A comparative study of the conditional effect of societal accountability in EU regions (xsd:string)
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