Institutional transformation of public procurement systems in the post-Soviet space: the experience of Georgia, Russia and Ukraine
This study provides an institutional analysis of public procurement systems in the post-Soviet space using the examples of Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine. These countries, having started the transition to a capitalist system and the formation of new economic and social institutions for themselves in the same period of time, including in the fight against corruption, increasing the transparency of public authorities and public procurement systems, eventually, after 25 years, built completely different institutions in terms of efficiency, which is confirmed by various ratings [EBRD, www], [World Bank, www], [E-Procurement Success, www]. In addition, the separate experience of Ukraine and Georgia is interesting in that this transition was carried out by importing institutions from the West, including through the use of Association programs and financial (grant) support. Thus, the task of the study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the experience of these countries, to identify the key conditions for building successful public procurement systems, which, in our opinion, is impossible in the conditions of undeveloped anti-corruption and civil law institutions, that is, in the need for parallel transformation of the rest of the institutional structure of the state, as well as to identify the factors that cause such strong corruption institutions in the postSoviet space.