Professionalization of Public Buyers: Determining Primordial Effectiveness of Public Order

The professionalization of the actors of the purchasing process has now become an essential priority for the optimization of state purchases, especially since the public order now stands at 195 MMDH, equivalent to 17.4% of GDP. Public procurement is a very sensitive area since, very often, the stakes are of such a magnitude that they have an impact on the economy, the political, the social and the environment. To this end, the professionalization of public buyers remains in Morocco, one of the ways to reduce the risks and the negative consequences in the awarding of contracts. This is why, today, more and more public administrations are called upon to resort to competent public purchasers in the field of knowledge management regarding the regulation of public contracts in order to improve their missions. To inquire about the veracity of the contribution of the professionalization of the public purchasers to the efficiency of the public order. This investigation was undertaken in the form of a questionnaire filed with 06 sub-ordonnateurin the city of Meknes. The aim is to inquire about the relationship between the professionalization of public purchasers and other three determinants, namely: a) e-procurement , b) transparency, and c) the free play of competition , and how they commonly contribute to the efficiency of the public order. The result of this article reveal that the professionalization of public buyers is a key determinant of the efficiency of public procurement.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780198804116.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Aled Davies

Keyword(s):

Industrial Development ◽

The Political ◽

Social Democratic ◽

Financial Centre ◽

Conservative Government ◽

The Social ◽

Post War ◽

City Of London ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

This book is a study of the political economy of Britain’s chief financial centre, the City of London, in the two decades prior to the election of Margaret Thatcher’s first Conservative government in 1979. The primary purpose of the book is to evaluate the relationship between the financial sector based in the City, and the economic strategy of social democracy in post-war Britain. In particular, it focuses on how the financial system related to the social democratic pursuit of national industrial development and modernization, and on how the norms of social democratic economic policy were challenged by a variety of fundamental changes to the City that took place during the period....

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Reading inquiry through the prism of unemployement

Savoirs de la Précarité / knowledge from precarity ◽

10.17184/eac.3337 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 201-216

Author(s):

Guillaume Heuguet

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Doctoral Students ◽

Science Inquiry ◽

The Political ◽

Social Rights ◽

The Public ◽

Political Role ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship

This exploratory text starts from a doctoral-unemployed experience and was triggered by the discussions within a collective of doctoral students on this particularly ambiguous status since it is situated between student, unemployed, worker, self-entrepreneur, citizen-subject of social rights or user-commuter in offices and forms. These discussions motivated the reading and commentary of a heterogeneous set of texts on unemployment, precariousness and the functioning of the institutions of the social state. This article thus focuses on the relationship between knowledge and unemployment, as embodied in the public space, in the relationship with Pôle Emploi, and in the academic literature. It articulates a threefold problematic : what is known and said publicly about unemployment? What can we learn from the very experience of the relationship with an institution like Pôle Emploi? How can these observations contribute to an understanding of social science inquiry and the political role of knowledge fromm precariousness?

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Choice and Voice – A Review

Social Policy and Society ◽

10.1017/s1474746407004204 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 255-265 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Ian Greener

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Public Service ◽

Public Services ◽

Political Process ◽

The Political ◽

Service Users ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

The Right ◽

The Relationship

‘Choice’ and ‘voice’ are two of the most significant means through which the public are able to participate in public services. Choice agendas position public service users as consumers, driving improvements by choosing good providers over bad, which then thrive through greater allocations of funds as money follows their selections (Le Grand, 2007). Choice-driven reforms tend to be about trying to make public services more locally responsive (Ferlie, Freeman, McDonnell, Petsoulas and Rundle-Smith, 2006). Voice-driven reforms, on the other hand, tend to position public service users as citizens, suggesting an emphasis on accountability mechanisms to drive service improvements through elections, with the possible removal of low regarded officials, or a greater involvement of local people in the running of services (Jenkins, 2006). Voice implies that citizens hold the right to participate in public services either through the political process, or through their direct involvement in the running or delivery of the services themselves. Of course, it is also possible to combine choice and voice mechanisms to try and achieve greater service responsiveness and accountability. In this review, choice reforms will be treated as those which are based upon consumer literature, and voice reforms those based upon attempting to achieve greater citizenship.Citizenship and consumption are two areas with significant literatures in their own right, but whereas the citizenship literature is widely cited in the social policy literature, the consumption literature appears rather more selectively. This review examines each area in turn in terms of its application to social policy, and then presents a synthesis of commonalties in the two literatures, which represent particularly promising avenues for exploring the relationship between public services and their users.

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Daenerys Targaryen Will Save Spain:Game of Thrones, Politics, and the Public Sphere

Television & New Media ◽

10.1177/1527476418770748 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

pp. 423-442 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Concepción Cascajosa Virino ◽

Vicente Rodríguez Ortega

Keyword(s):

Participatory Culture ◽

The Political ◽

Social Fabric ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

Political Forces ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Bottom To Top ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

This article deals with the use of the American television series Game of Thrones (HBO: 2011–) as part of the political discourse of the emerging political party Podemos in Spain. First, we focus on Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias, who, in 2014, edited a book devoted to analyzing this series from a political science viewpoint. We then move on to study ideologically charged symbolic gestures and the detailed analysis of the parallelisms between Daenerys Targaryen’s revolutionary enterprise and Podemos’s bottom-to-top quest to seize power. We then scrutinize how emergent political forces that threaten the enduring hegemony of traditional parties use popular cultural artifacts to intervene in the social fabric and how they attempt to tune in with the Internet-dedicated, socially networked younger classes. This article, thus, analyzes how the relationship between politics and serialized TV fiction has morphed within the Spanish mediascape, paying special attention to the impact of participatory culture.

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2. Law and society: the purposes and functions of law

Introduction to the English Legal System 2019-2020 ◽

10.1093/he/9780198838838.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 8-26

Author(s):

Martin Partington

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Law And Society ◽

Public Order ◽

Social Functions ◽

Human Relationships ◽

Abuse Of Power ◽

The Public ◽

Regulatory Frameworks ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship

This chapter discusses the social functions of law at both the macro and micro levels. The macro functions of law cover the relationship between law and different orders: public order, political order, social order, economic order, international order, and moral order. They also include the resolution of social problems, the regulation of human relationships, and the educative or ideological function of law. The micro functions of law include: defining the limits of acceptable behaviour, the consequences of certain forms of behaviour, and processes for the transaction of business and other activities, as well as creating regulatory frameworks, giving authority to agents of the state to take actions against citizens, preventing the abuse of power by officials, giving power/authority to officials to assist the public, and prescribing procedures for the use of law.

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“ADULTS SEE POLITICS AS A GAME”: POLITICS OF KURDISH CHILDREN IN URBAN TURKEY

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743813000901 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 45 (4) ◽

pp. 775-790 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Haydar Darıcı

Keyword(s):

Public Discourse ◽

Forced Migration ◽

State Violence ◽

Urban Life ◽

The Political ◽

Urban Context ◽

Political Actors ◽

The Public ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

AbstractThis article explores the political subjectivity of Kurdish children in urban Turkey. Often referred to as “stone-throwing children,” since the early 2000s Kurdish children have entered Turkish public discourse as central political actors of the urban Kurdish movement. I suggest that the politicization of children can be understood in the context of transformations in age and kinship systems within the Kurdish community that were shaped by the forced migration of Kurds in the early 1990s. Focusing on the experiences of Kurdish children in the city of Adana, I argue that memories of violence transmitted by displaced parents, combined with the children's experiences of urban life, including exclusion, discrimination, poverty, and state violence, necessitate a reevaluation of how childhood is conceived and experienced within the Kurdish community. In a context where Kurdish adults often have trouble integrating into the urban context, their children frequently challenge conventional power relations within their families as well as within the Kurdish movement. In contrast to a dominant Turkish public discourse positing that these children are being abused by politicized adults, I contend that Kurdish children are active agents who subvert the agendas and norms of not only Turkish but also Kurdish politics. The article analyzes the ways Kurdish children are represented in the public discourse, how they narrate and make sense of their own politicization, and the relationship between the memory and the postmemory of violence in the context of their mobilization.

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Urbanização e crescimento da cidade de Juiz de Fora: Aspectos político-criminais na transição do século XIX para o XX

Passagens Revista Internacional de História Política e Cultura Jurídica ◽

10.15175/1984-2503-202113208 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 328-364

Author(s):

E. C. C. RODRIGUES ◽

M. J. B. VALENTE ◽

L. C. GARCIA ◽

N. M. BRITTO ◽

Pedro GUIMARÂES

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Critical Criminology ◽

Minas Gerais ◽

The Political ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Brazilian State ◽

The Social ◽

Process Of Urbanization ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

This article focuses on the process of urbanization and growth in the city of Juiz de Fora in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais during the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. We problematize the relationship between this process, marked by a developmentalist and elitist ideology, and the construc-tion of the political-criminal and punitive framework in the municipality. Based on the dialogue between his-torical studies on the city and the theoretical frameworks of critical criminology, we observe the bonds connecting the processes of urbanization and development and the punitive economy during the period under study, along with the social and criminal impacts throughout the course of the city’s history.

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Proximity and the Formation of Public Attitudes towards Mental Illness

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a130147 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 147-165 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

C J Smith ◽

R Q Hanham

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Mentally Ill ◽

Public Attitudes ◽

Model Framework ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

Education Campaigns ◽

Location Strategies ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

This paper investigates the effect of proximity on attitudes towards mental illness. One outcome of the policies referred to as deinstitutionalization is an overall reduction in the social and geographical distance between members of the public and the mentally ill. For deinstitutionalization to be successful, it is important that residents in impacted communities become more accepting, both in a passive and in an active sense. A survey was made of residents in two neighborhoods of the city of Norman, Oklahoma, one of which was adjacent to a large mental health facility. In a causal model framework, the relationship between proximity and public attitudes is investigated; and the results suggest an important and significant relationship. The implications of the study for public education campaigns about mental illness, and for facility location strategies, are discussed.

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