Tobias Ten Brink
Biographic Data
| ID | 388141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Ten Brink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias Ten |
| FAMILY NAME | Brink |
| SIGNATURE | TEN BRINK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Constructor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2892-3742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Web mining science–industry linkages: Extending typologies and rethinking knowledge transfer
Governments around the world have encouraged science-industry linkages (SILs) to support new technological discoveries and the foundations for a country’s competitiveness through knowledge transfer. However, when identifying SILs, researchers mainly rely on co-patenting, leading to a distorted picture of the prevalence and types of SILs. To analyse how web mining may help SIL researchers establish a more comprehensive understanding of SILs, we re…
Gaps between de jure entitlements and de facto benefits: Institutional drift and non‐take‐up in China's maternity benefit system
Chinese female workers have a de jure right to maternity benefits, enshrined in law and policy since the 1950s. Using the concept of institutional drift, this article examines why entitlements are not awarded as legally stipulated. It finds that the transition from a command to a market economy undermined the effectiveness of maternity benefit entitlements. Although maternity insurance was introduced in 1994 to alleviate drift, employer non‐compl…
Lesson‐drawing under authoritarianism: Generosity and cost control in China's hospital payment reforms
Local policy experimentation was a driving force behind China's economic progress, but its results in the field of social policy are more ambiguous. This article takes a lesson‐drawing perspective on the transfer of international hospital payment reforms to Chinese cities, focusing on the Urban Employees' Basic Medical Insurance. We distinguish two waves of reform. The first wave was driven by local government initiatives dominated by simplified …
The diffusion of international models in China’s Urban Employees’ Social Insurance
This study seeks to explain why China’s Urban Employees’ Social Insurance (UESI) features models that can be considered internationally mainstream in three of its branches (pensions, work accidents and unemployment), but fringe models in the other two (healthcare and maternity). Focusing on learning as a mechanism of diffusion, it compares the five insurance programmes of the UESI regarding the influence of domestic and international factors on t…
The Agency of Recipient Countries in Transnational Policy-Related Knowledge Transfer
Current research on transnational knowledge transfer has a strong bias toward (often conditionality-based) advice originating in the core OECD world and focuses nearly exclusively on the link from a source to a target of knowledge transfer. This contribution provides a broader and more nuanced picture by looking at the reverse logic of non-OECD countries proactively searching abroad for policy advice and assessing this advice based on their own r…
Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south
The aim of this Regional Issue is to generate new findings on social policy dynamics in the Global South and on the transnational factors that shape them. It suggests that the concept of causal mechanisms is particularly well suited for analyzing these dynamics. This introduction presents the concept of causal mechanisms, as well as different approaches to analyzing mechanisms in transnational social policy dynamics. It then summarizes the key fi…
The Externalization of China's Technical Standardization Approach
International technical standardization has always been shaped by the externalization of the domestic standard systems of the most technologically advanced countries. China's growing technological footprint is no exception, and it has the potential to significantly reshape international technical standard setting. In contrast particularly to European standardization, which is realized through coordinated private self-regulation, China has adopted…
China’s rise in a liberal world order in transition – introduction to the Forum
In a time of great uncertainty about the future and resilience of the liberal world order this Forum focuses on China’s rise and interplay with the foundations of that liberal order. The key question is the extent to and variegated ways in which China - with its (re)ascendance to power and potential global leadership – is adapting to and perhaps even strengthening liberal institutions and rules of the game, confronting them, or developing alterna…
Varieties of contestation: China’s rise and the liberal trade order
This article reassesses whether, and if so how and why, China contests the WTO’s liberal trade order. Our framework on ‘varieties of contestation’ goes beyond the mainstream view of a monolithic Chinese trade policy that either challenges or supports the liberal trade order. We propose a two-step approach that allows for a more differentiated assessment. First, a constructivist analysis captures the extent to which China embraces liberal trade no…
Public-private coordination in large emerging economies: The case of Brazil, India and China
Different modes of economic coordination constitute a key aspect of the Comparative Capitalisms research framework. With regard to emerging economies, the close relationship between the state and business has been perceived negatively as an instance of corruption and patrimonialism that are considered to be economically harmful. This paper addresses the puzzle why some large emerging economies – China, India, and Brazil in particular – have seen …
Introduction: International comparative perspectives on Chinese social policy
Social policy in China has become a topical issue among Chinese policymakers, scholars, and the general public. Social problems and socio-economic woes associated with the grand socioeconomic moder
A great leap? Domestic market growth and local state support in the upgrading of China's LED lighting industry
In this article we analyse the conditions for industrial upgrading in the Chinese LED industry, which proactive local state policies and expanding domestic markets have greatly facilitated. State initiatives provoked overinvestment, but eventually led to the emergence of competitive domestic enterprises. Simultaneously, firms benefited from a growing domestic market on which they outcompeted foreign companies in mid-price segments. The combinatio…
Synthesizing disparate ideas: How a Chinese model of social assistance was forged
In 1993, the Shanghai government introduced a minimum income security program, causing contagious imitative behaviors in scores of local pilot projects in China. Invigorated by such local policy experiments, the central government in 1999 set up a Minimum Living Standard Scheme covering all urban regions and, from 2007, rural areas. In the process of designing this scheme, the Chinese epistemic social policy community translated foreign ideas int…
The Development of the Chinese Photovoltaic Industry: An advancing role for the central state
This article assesses debates on state recentralization and economic rebalancing through a study of the photovoltaic (PV) industry. Based on empirical data and interviews, the authors examine different means and incentives of state support in this sector. First, in the context of the rise of PV firms (2001–2008), local government acquired a dominant role in supporting the sector. Second, against the backdrop of an industry downturn (2009–2013), t…
Bildet sich in den Schwellenländern eine neue Form des Kapitalismus heraus? Implikationen für die Weltwirtschaftsordnung
Chinese firms ‘going global’: Recent Ofdi trends, policy support and international implications
Economic Analysis in Critical Theory: The Impact of Friedrich Pollock's State Capitalism Concept
Domestic structures, foreign economic policies and global economic order: Implications from the rise of large emerging economies
The rise of the large emerging economies of Brazil, India and China can easily be counted among the most important contemporary structural changes in the global political economy. This article attempts to determine whether these countries have a common institutional model for governing their economies and addresses the implications of these commonalities for global economic institutions. The approach consists of three major steps: first, a genera…
Global Political Economy and the Modern State System
In Global Political Economy and the Modern State System Tobias ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state system, its conflicts, and its transformation. In contrast to the political attractiveness of optimistic theoretical approaches to globalisation, this book demonstrates how an analytical approach rooted in Global Political Economy (GPE) helps to explain both the tendencies towards integration and towards rivalry in internat…
L'ascension du capitalisme chinois: L'interdépendance n'empêche pas les tensions
Considered in the framework of comparative capitalism, China presents the characteristics of a state-permeated variety of capitalism entirely focused on raising the country’s global profile. Despite extensive interdependence, efforts at cooperation and pragmatic policy choices, the integration of Chinese capitalism into a weak world economy is thus a process entailing conflict. While the Chinese economy continues to be dependent on the historic c…
Global Political Economy and the Modern State System
Staatskapitalismus 3.0
Die Herausbildung staatlich durchdrungener Marktökonomien in großen Schwellenländern wie Brasilien, China oder Indien ist ein mehr als überfälliger Anlass, den Westzentrismus der aktuellen Krisendiskussionsowie der Literatur zu den „Varieties of Capitalism“ zu verlassen und sich mit den Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden des Kapitalismus in diesen Ländern zu beschäftigen. Wir sprechen hierbei vom Staatskapitalismus 3.0, also einer dritten Welle de…
Paradoxes of Prosperity in China's New Capitalism
This article gives a broad characterization of China's political economy, as well as specific aspects of its socio-economic instabilities. With a focus on China's export-oriented industry sectors, concepts from comparative and international political economy are applied to show how the Chinese economy can be understood as a variegated form of state-permeated capitalism that at the same time is deeply integrated into world economic processes. The …
Rebalancing China's Emergent Capitalism: State Power, Economic Liberalization and Social Upgrading
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4/2013: Rebalancing China's Political Economy
Staatenkonflikte: Zur Analyse von Geopolitik und Imperialismus - Ein Überblick
Das vorliegende Buch stellt verschiedene Ansätze zur Erklärung zwischenstaatlicher Konkurrenzverhältnisse, einer militarisierten Außenpolitik und weiterer internationaler, teilweise gewaltsamer Konflikte vor. Es zielt darauf, einen für Studierende und weitere Interessierte nützlichen Wegweiser durch eine mitunter komplexe Debatte bereitzustellen. Dabei stehen unter anderem folgende Fragestellungen im Mittelpunkt: - Welches sind die Triebkräfte vo…
Domestic structures, foreign economic policies and global economic order: Implications from the rise of large emerging economies
The rise of the large emerging economies of Brazil, India and China can easily be counted among the most important contemporary structural changes in the global political economy. This article attempts to determine whether these countries have a common institutional model for governing their economies and addresses the implications of these commonalities for global economic institutions. The approach consists of three major steps: first, a genera…
China’s rise in a liberal world order in transition – introduction to the Forum
In a time of great uncertainty about the future and resilience of the liberal world order this Forum focuses on China’s rise and interplay with the foundations of that liberal order. The key question is the extent to and variegated ways in which China - with its (re)ascendance to power and potential global leadership – is adapting to and perhaps even strengthening liberal institutions and rules of the game, confronting them, or developing alterna…
Varieties of contestation: China’s rise and the liberal trade order
This article reassesses whether, and if so how and why, China contests the WTO’s liberal trade order. Our framework on ‘varieties of contestation’ goes beyond the mainstream view of a monolithic Chinese trade policy that either challenges or supports the liberal trade order. We propose a two-step approach that allows for a more differentiated assessment. First, a constructivist analysis captures the extent to which China embraces liberal trade no…
Synthesizing disparate ideas: How a Chinese model of social assistance was forged
In 1993, the Shanghai government introduced a minimum income security program, causing contagious imitative behaviors in scores of local pilot projects in China. Invigorated by such local policy experiments, the central government in 1999 set up a Minimum Living Standard Scheme covering all urban regions and, from 2007, rural areas. In the process of designing this scheme, the Chinese epistemic social policy community translated foreign ideas int…
Paradoxes of Prosperity in China's New Capitalism
This article gives a broad characterization of China's political economy, as well as specific aspects of its socio-economic instabilities. With a focus on China's export-oriented industry sectors, concepts from comparative and international political economy are applied to show how the Chinese economy can be understood as a variegated form of state-permeated capitalism that at the same time is deeply integrated into world economic processes. The …
Public-private coordination in large emerging economies: The case of Brazil, India and China
Different modes of economic coordination constitute a key aspect of the Comparative Capitalisms research framework. With regard to emerging economies, the close relationship between the state and business has been perceived negatively as an instance of corruption and patrimonialism that are considered to be economically harmful. This paper addresses the puzzle why some large emerging economies – China, India, and Brazil in particular – have seen …
The Development of the Chinese Photovoltaic Industry: An advancing role for the central state
This article assesses debates on state recentralization and economic rebalancing through a study of the photovoltaic (PV) industry. Based on empirical data and interviews, the authors examine different means and incentives of state support in this sector. First, in the context of the rise of PV firms (2001–2008), local government acquired a dominant role in supporting the sector. Second, against the backdrop of an industry downturn (2009–2013), t…
A great leap? Domestic market growth and local state support in the upgrading of China's LED lighting industry
In this article we analyse the conditions for industrial upgrading in the Chinese LED industry, which proactive local state policies and expanding domestic markets have greatly facilitated. State initiatives provoked overinvestment, but eventually led to the emergence of competitive domestic enterprises. Simultaneously, firms benefited from a growing domestic market on which they outcompeted foreign companies in mid-price segments. The combinatio…
Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south
The aim of this Regional Issue is to generate new findings on social policy dynamics in the Global South and on the transnational factors that shape them. It suggests that the concept of causal mechanisms is particularly well suited for analyzing these dynamics. This introduction presents the concept of causal mechanisms, as well as different approaches to analyzing mechanisms in transnational social policy dynamics. It then summarizes the key fi…
The Externalization of China's Technical Standardization Approach
International technical standardization has always been shaped by the externalization of the domestic standard systems of the most technologically advanced countries. China's growing technological footprint is no exception, and it has the potential to significantly reshape international technical standard setting. In contrast particularly to European standardization, which is realized through coordinated private self-regulation, China has adopted…
Chinese firms ‘going global’: Recent Ofdi trends, policy support and international implications
The Agency of Recipient Countries in Transnational Policy-Related Knowledge Transfer
Current research on transnational knowledge transfer has a strong bias toward (often conditionality-based) advice originating in the core OECD world and focuses nearly exclusively on the link from a source to a target of knowledge transfer. This contribution provides a broader and more nuanced picture by looking at the reverse logic of non-OECD countries proactively searching abroad for policy advice and assessing this advice based on their own r…
Economic Analysis in Critical Theory: The Impact of Friedrich Pollock's State Capitalism Concept
Gaps between de jure entitlements and de facto benefits: Institutional drift and non‐take‐up in China's maternity benefit system
Chinese female workers have a de jure right to maternity benefits, enshrined in law and policy since the 1950s. Using the concept of institutional drift, this article examines why entitlements are not awarded as legally stipulated. It finds that the transition from a command to a market economy undermined the effectiveness of maternity benefit entitlements. Although maternity insurance was introduced in 1994 to alleviate drift, employer non‐compl…
Lesson‐drawing under authoritarianism: Generosity and cost control in China's hospital payment reforms
Local policy experimentation was a driving force behind China's economic progress, but its results in the field of social policy are more ambiguous. This article takes a lesson‐drawing perspective on the transfer of international hospital payment reforms to Chinese cities, focusing on the Urban Employees' Basic Medical Insurance. We distinguish two waves of reform. The first wave was driven by local government initiatives dominated by simplified …
The diffusion of international models in China’s Urban Employees’ Social Insurance
This study seeks to explain why China’s Urban Employees’ Social Insurance (UESI) features models that can be considered internationally mainstream in three of its branches (pensions, work accidents and unemployment), but fringe models in the other two (healthcare and maternity). Focusing on learning as a mechanism of diffusion, it compares the five insurance programmes of the UESI regarding the influence of domestic and international factors on t…
Introduction: International comparative perspectives on Chinese social policy
Social policy in China has become a topical issue among Chinese policymakers, scholars, and the general public. Social problems and socio-economic woes associated with the grand socioeconomic moder
Rebalancing China's Emergent Capitalism: State Power, Economic Liberalization and Social Upgrading
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4/2013: Rebalancing China's Political Economy
Lost in Transition: The German World-Market Debate in the 1970s
The persistence of economic and geopolitical conflicts beyond the 1990s has revived interest in explanations that analyse international conflicts in relation to capitalism. In this debate, many contributors have accepted one or another version of a strong globalisation theory, which reflects the hopes for an age of peace and prosperity as a largely co-operative process. This paper attempts to question this thesis by introducing an almost forgotte…
Staatenkonflikte: Zur Analyse von Geopolitik und Imperialismus - Ein Überblick
Das vorliegende Buch stellt verschiedene Ansätze zur Erklärung zwischenstaatlicher Konkurrenzverhältnisse, einer militarisierten Außenpolitik und weiterer internationaler, teilweise gewaltsamer Konflikte vor. Es zielt darauf, einen für Studierende und weitere Interessierte nützlichen Wegweiser durch eine mitunter komplexe Debatte bereitzustellen. Dabei stehen unter anderem folgende Fragestellungen im Mittelpunkt: - Welches sind die Triebkräfte vo…
Lost in Transition: The German World-Market Debate in the 1970s
The persistence of economic and geopolitical conflicts beyond the 1990s has revived interest in explanations that analyse international conflicts in relation to capitalism. In this debate, many contributors have accepted one or another version of a strong globalisation theory, which reflects the hopes for an age of peace and prosperity as a largely co-operative process. This paper attempts to question this thesis by introducing an almost forgotte…
Staatskapitalismus 3.0
Die Herausbildung staatlich durchdrungener Marktökonomien in großen Schwellenländern wie Brasilien, China oder Indien ist ein mehr als überfälliger Anlass, den Westzentrismus der aktuellen Krisendiskussionsowie der Literatur zu den „Varieties of Capitalism“ zu verlassen und sich mit den Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden des Kapitalismus in diesen Ländern zu beschäftigen. Wir sprechen hierbei vom Staatskapitalismus 3.0, also einer dritten Welle de…
Paradoxes of Prosperity in China's New Capitalism
This article gives a broad characterization of China's political economy, as well as specific aspects of its socio-economic instabilities. With a focus on China's export-oriented industry sectors, concepts from comparative and international political economy are applied to show how the Chinese economy can be understood as a variegated form of state-permeated capitalism that at the same time is deeply integrated into world economic processes. The …
Rebalancing China's Emergent Capitalism: State Power, Economic Liberalization and Social Upgrading
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4/2013: Rebalancing China's Political Economy
Global Political Economy and the Modern State System
In Global Political Economy and the Modern State System Tobias ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state system, its conflicts, and its transformation. In contrast to the political attractiveness of optimistic theoretical approaches to globalisation, this book demonstrates how an analytical approach rooted in Global Political Economy (GPE) helps to explain both the tendencies towards integration and towards rivalry in internat…
L'ascension du capitalisme chinois: L'interdépendance n'empêche pas les tensions
Considered in the framework of comparative capitalism, China presents the characteristics of a state-permeated variety of capitalism entirely focused on raising the country’s global profile. Despite extensive interdependence, efforts at cooperation and pragmatic policy choices, the integration of Chinese capitalism into a weak world economy is thus a process entailing conflict. While the Chinese economy continues to be dependent on the historic c…
Global Political Economy and the Modern State System
Bildet sich in den Schwellenländern eine neue Form des Kapitalismus heraus? Implikationen für die Weltwirtschaftsordnung
Chinese firms ‘going global’: Recent Ofdi trends, policy support and international implications
Economic Analysis in Critical Theory: The Impact of Friedrich Pollock's State Capitalism Concept
Domestic structures, foreign economic policies and global economic order: Implications from the rise of large emerging economies
The rise of the large emerging economies of Brazil, India and China can easily be counted among the most important contemporary structural changes in the global political economy. This article attempts to determine whether these countries have a common institutional model for governing their economies and addresses the implications of these commonalities for global economic institutions. The approach consists of three major steps: first, a genera…
The Development of the Chinese Photovoltaic Industry: An advancing role for the central state
This article assesses debates on state recentralization and economic rebalancing through a study of the photovoltaic (PV) industry. Based on empirical data and interviews, the authors examine different means and incentives of state support in this sector. First, in the context of the rise of PV firms (2001–2008), local government acquired a dominant role in supporting the sector. Second, against the backdrop of an industry downturn (2009–2013), t…
Synthesizing disparate ideas: How a Chinese model of social assistance was forged
In 1993, the Shanghai government introduced a minimum income security program, causing contagious imitative behaviors in scores of local pilot projects in China. Invigorated by such local policy experiments, the central government in 1999 set up a Minimum Living Standard Scheme covering all urban regions and, from 2007, rural areas. In the process of designing this scheme, the Chinese epistemic social policy community translated foreign ideas int…
Introduction: International comparative perspectives on Chinese social policy
Social policy in China has become a topical issue among Chinese policymakers, scholars, and the general public. Social problems and socio-economic woes associated with the grand socioeconomic moder
A great leap? Domestic market growth and local state support in the upgrading of China's LED lighting industry
In this article we analyse the conditions for industrial upgrading in the Chinese LED industry, which proactive local state policies and expanding domestic markets have greatly facilitated. State initiatives provoked overinvestment, but eventually led to the emergence of competitive domestic enterprises. Simultaneously, firms benefited from a growing domestic market on which they outcompeted foreign companies in mid-price segments. The combinatio…
Varieties of contestation: China’s rise and the liberal trade order
This article reassesses whether, and if so how and why, China contests the WTO’s liberal trade order. Our framework on ‘varieties of contestation’ goes beyond the mainstream view of a monolithic Chinese trade policy that either challenges or supports the liberal trade order. We propose a two-step approach that allows for a more differentiated assessment. First, a constructivist analysis captures the extent to which China embraces liberal trade no…
Public-private coordination in large emerging economies: The case of Brazil, India and China
Different modes of economic coordination constitute a key aspect of the Comparative Capitalisms research framework. With regard to emerging economies, the close relationship between the state and business has been perceived negatively as an instance of corruption and patrimonialism that are considered to be economically harmful. This paper addresses the puzzle why some large emerging economies – China, India, and Brazil in particular – have seen …
China’s rise in a liberal world order in transition – introduction to the Forum
In a time of great uncertainty about the future and resilience of the liberal world order this Forum focuses on China’s rise and interplay with the foundations of that liberal order. The key question is the extent to and variegated ways in which China - with its (re)ascendance to power and potential global leadership – is adapting to and perhaps even strengthening liberal institutions and rules of the game, confronting them, or developing alterna…
The Agency of Recipient Countries in Transnational Policy-Related Knowledge Transfer
Current research on transnational knowledge transfer has a strong bias toward (often conditionality-based) advice originating in the core OECD world and focuses nearly exclusively on the link from a source to a target of knowledge transfer. This contribution provides a broader and more nuanced picture by looking at the reverse logic of non-OECD countries proactively searching abroad for policy advice and assessing this advice based on their own r…
Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south
The aim of this Regional Issue is to generate new findings on social policy dynamics in the Global South and on the transnational factors that shape them. It suggests that the concept of causal mechanisms is particularly well suited for analyzing these dynamics. This introduction presents the concept of causal mechanisms, as well as different approaches to analyzing mechanisms in transnational social policy dynamics. It then summarizes the key fi…
The Externalization of China's Technical Standardization Approach
International technical standardization has always been shaped by the externalization of the domestic standard systems of the most technologically advanced countries. China's growing technological footprint is no exception, and it has the potential to significantly reshape international technical standard setting. In contrast particularly to European standardization, which is realized through coordinated private self-regulation, China has adopted…
The diffusion of international models in China’s Urban Employees’ Social Insurance
This study seeks to explain why China’s Urban Employees’ Social Insurance (UESI) features models that can be considered internationally mainstream in three of its branches (pensions, work accidents and unemployment), but fringe models in the other two (healthcare and maternity). Focusing on learning as a mechanism of diffusion, it compares the five insurance programmes of the UESI regarding the influence of domestic and international factors on t…
Lesson‐drawing under authoritarianism: Generosity and cost control in China's hospital payment reforms
Local policy experimentation was a driving force behind China's economic progress, but its results in the field of social policy are more ambiguous. This article takes a lesson‐drawing perspective on the transfer of international hospital payment reforms to Chinese cities, focusing on the Urban Employees' Basic Medical Insurance. We distinguish two waves of reform. The first wave was driven by local government initiatives dominated by simplified …
Web mining science–industry linkages: Extending typologies and rethinking knowledge transfer
Governments around the world have encouraged science-industry linkages (SILs) to support new technological discoveries and the foundations for a country’s competitiveness through knowledge transfer. However, when identifying SILs, researchers mainly rely on co-patenting, leading to a distorted picture of the prevalence and types of SILs. To analyse how web mining may help SIL researchers establish a more comprehensive understanding of SILs, we re…
Political science (22 works) · Economics (18 works) · China (15 works) · Economic system (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Politics (9 works)