Negative Consequences of Corruption in Public Procurement

Abstract

The subject matter of the study deals with the norms of national legislation on combating corruption and public procurement, as well as research works on the negative consequences of corruption in public procurement. The purpose of the study is to examine and systematize knowledge about the negative consequences of corruption in public procurement. The objectives of the study are: to examine provisions of national legislation on combating corruption in public procurement; interdisciplinary research of approaches to considering the consequences of corruption and its individual manifestations in public procurement; systematization of the negative consequences of corruption in public procurement using methods of grouping and typologization. In the course of the study, the author identified the normative prerequisites for the relevance of studying the issue posed. The analysis of the results of the research on the consequences of corruption and its individual manifestations in the field of public procurement allowed us to identify two groups of such consequences: internal and external. Economic, legal, social, political, moral and psychological negative consequences are identified using the method of typologization. When applying an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the negative consequences of the phenomenon under consideration, the author identified the industry-wide nature of such consequences, consisting in their harmful effects not only on the public procurement system itself, but also on other spheres of public life and, subsequently, on all major state and public mechanisms.