Freie Universität Berlin seeks to hire a postdoc in the project „Varieties of Procurement Regimes: How Do States Procure Strategically and to What Effect? (SProcure)" (co-lead: Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp/ FU Berlin and Prof. Dr. David Levi-Faur/ Hebrew Universität Jerusalem) founded by the DFG.
Public procurement is one of the major instruments for governments to ensure state functions, to achieve public policy goals and to push the twin transition (energy and digitalization). OECD countries spend almost 15% of their GDP on public procurement. When purchasing states can seek strategic goals that go beyond a focus on best prize and seek green, social or innovation criteria. Strategic procurement implies a shift in the relation between state and market and raises questions about states’ priorities, policy coherence and the winners and losers of strategic procurement. SProcure asks how, when and with what effect states procure strategically. Addressing these questions, the project pursues three goals:
(1) conceptualizing and mapping of strategic procurement regimes,
(2) identifying varieties and ideal types of procurement regimes, and
(3) explaining outcomes and effects of procurement regimes.
Methodologically SProcure will build a data base on sectoral procurement regimes that allows to systematically compare countries and time periods. To this aim six primary cases from three sectors (health, social protection and defense) in two countries (Germany and Israel) will be compared and analyzed against twelve secondary cases from other countries.
full-time job
limited to 3 years
salary grade (Entgeltgruppe) 13 TV-L FU
reference code: SProcure Post-Doc
Collaboration in the project SProcure, in particular:
Desirable:
Your application should contain the following documents:
For further information on the position and the project please do not hesitate to contact miriam.hartlapp@fu-berlin.de
Applications should be sent by e-mail, together with significant documents, indicating the reference code, no later than November 11th, 2024 in PDF format (preferably as one document, max. 5 MB) to Ines.Stavrinakis@fu-berlin.de or postal to
Freie Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Arbeitsstelle Vergleich Deutschland und Frankreich
Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp
Ihnestr. 22
14195 Berlin (Dahlem)
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