Buying social justice
Subtitle: equality, government procurement, and legal change
By: Christopher McCrudden.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199232420; 9780199232437
Subjects: Government purchasing -- Law and legislation -- Political aspects; Public contracts -- Political aspects; Social justice; Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is this book about?; title: Roots; title: Status equality law and policy; title: International and European procurement regulation; title: Buying social justice?; title: Contract compliance in the United States and Canada; title: Set-asides in the United States and Canada; title: Evolution of the government procurement agreement model and procurement linkages; title: Procurement linkages and developing countries; title: Procurement linkages and the 1980's reform of EC procurement regulation; title: Domestic procurement linkages during the 1990s and the chilling effect of European procurement regulation; title: Changing approaches to procurement linkages in the community and beyond; title: Expansion of equality linkages in the member states; title: Procurement linkages and the 2003 legislative reforms: a modus vivendi in sight?; title: Interpreting the government procurement agreement; title: EC public procurement law and equality linkages: foundations for interpretation; title: European public procurement law and equality linkages: government as consumer, government as regulator; title: Reconciling social and economic approaches to public procurement.