Thomas Kalinowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 4075176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Kalinowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalinowski |
| SIGNATURE | KALINOWSKI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ewha Womans University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8334-3337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
National Growth Models and Global Capitalism: A Critique of Comparative Political Economy
This theoretical article offers a critical perspective on the stagnationist and methodologically nationalist foundations of the growth model approach in comparative political economy. Going back to Bhaduri and Marglin’s foundational work, we examine its stagnationist roots, focusing on the causal mechanisms that link national aggregate demand, profit, and investment, which create a congruence between capitalist accumulation and national economic …
The politics of climate change in a neo-developmental state: The case of South Korea
South Korea is the seventh largest emitter of CO2 and its climate-change mitigation policies are clearly insufficient. At the same time, the country has been very ambitious in implementing industrial policies promoting green technologies and international initiatives to support greenhouse gas mitigation in developing countries. What explains this discrepancy between weak emission goals and strong investments in green technology as well as ambitio…
Trends and mechanisms of corruption in South Korea
Corruption remains one of the key obstacles to democratization and good governance. Given the nature of the subject, corruption is notoriously difficult to study. International comparisons and rankings of good governance such as the World Bank World Governance Indicators, the Bertelsmann Sustainable Governance Index, or Transparency International's Global Corruption Index are very useful for providing the big picture on corruption. To understand …
South Korean Development Cooperation in Africa: The Legacy of a Developmental State
This paper investigates how the legacy of the South Korean developmental state influences the way the country conducts its development cooperation (DC) policies. We argue that institutions of the developmental state remain instrumental in structuring South Korea's cooperation with the developing world. Two country case studies of South Korean DC and investment projects in Mozambique and Rwanda show that state initiative and a strong state-busines…
Second image IPE: Global economic imbalances and the ‘defects’ of the East Asian development model
Crisis management and the diversity of capitalism: Fiscal stimulus packages and the East Asian (neo-)developmental state
This paper contributes to the understanding of East Asian capitalism by investigating the political economy of crisis management in Japan, Korea and China during the global economic crisis. Reacting to the global shock of the economic crisis that began in 2008, East Asian capitalism has remained a distinct state-led model that differs substantially from the liberal, neo-corporatist or welfare state varieties of capitalism in the West. More specif…
Regulating international finance and the diversity of capitalism
In this paper, I put the ongoing G20 process of improving the regulation of international finance into a historically and theoretically informed perspective. To understand the driving forces behind and obstacles to international cooperation in governing finance I combine concepts from international and comparative political economy. Different variants of capitalism have reacted in distinct ways to the collapse of the Bretton Woods System in the 1…
Korea's Search for a Global Role between Hard Economic Interests and Soft Power
The Political Economy of Financial Liberalization in South Korea: State, Big Business, and Foreign Investors
This paper studies the political economy of financial liberalization in Korea. We highlight the primary importance of state intervention in promoting financial liberalization. We shed light on "power games" of state, big business, and foreign investors emerging in state-led financial liberalization, and their impact on the Korean economy
The politics of market reforms: Korea's path from Chaebol Republic to market democracy and back
This paper studies the politics of market-oriented reforms in Korea since the 1997/98 financial crisis. It focuses on the capacity of the state to implement these reforms, and challenges the view that successfully implemented market reforms follow a technocratic 'best practice' approach. On the contrary, this paper argues that reforms in Korea were relatively successful because they were political projects that went beyond ownership concepts of t…
Korea's Recovery since the 1997/98 Financial Crisis: The Last Stage of the Developmental State
Democracy, Economic Crisis, and Market Oriented Reforms
In this paper I analyze the nexus between economic crises, market oriented reforms, and democratization in Indonesia and Korea since the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis. I provide some support for the hypothesis that democracies are better able to survive economic crises than authoritarian regimes. In both countries democratization facilitated a crisis resolution strategy based on market oriented reforms. However, I assert that in the long run the…
Korea's Search for a Global Role between Hard Economic Interests and Soft Power
The politics of climate change in a neo-developmental state: The case of South Korea
South Korea is the seventh largest emitter of CO2 and its climate-change mitigation policies are clearly insufficient. At the same time, the country has been very ambitious in implementing industrial policies promoting green technologies and international initiatives to support greenhouse gas mitigation in developing countries. What explains this discrepancy between weak emission goals and strong investments in green technology as well as ambitio…
Crisis management and the diversity of capitalism: Fiscal stimulus packages and the East Asian (neo-)developmental state
This paper contributes to the understanding of East Asian capitalism by investigating the political economy of crisis management in Japan, Korea and China during the global economic crisis. Reacting to the global shock of the economic crisis that began in 2008, East Asian capitalism has remained a distinct state-led model that differs substantially from the liberal, neo-corporatist or welfare state varieties of capitalism in the West. More specif…
South Korean Development Cooperation in Africa: The Legacy of a Developmental State
This paper investigates how the legacy of the South Korean developmental state influences the way the country conducts its development cooperation (DC) policies. We argue that institutions of the developmental state remain instrumental in structuring South Korea's cooperation with the developing world. Two country case studies of South Korean DC and investment projects in Mozambique and Rwanda show that state initiative and a strong state-busines…
Korea's Recovery since the 1997/98 Financial Crisis: The Last Stage of the Developmental State
The Political Economy of Financial Liberalization in South Korea: State, Big Business, and Foreign Investors
This paper studies the political economy of financial liberalization in Korea. We highlight the primary importance of state intervention in promoting financial liberalization. We shed light on "power games" of state, big business, and foreign investors emerging in state-led financial liberalization, and their impact on the Korean economy
The politics of market reforms: Korea's path from Chaebol Republic to market democracy and back
This paper studies the politics of market-oriented reforms in Korea since the 1997/98 financial crisis. It focuses on the capacity of the state to implement these reforms, and challenges the view that successfully implemented market reforms follow a technocratic 'best practice' approach. On the contrary, this paper argues that reforms in Korea were relatively successful because they were political projects that went beyond ownership concepts of t…
Regulating international finance and the diversity of capitalism
In this paper, I put the ongoing G20 process of improving the regulation of international finance into a historically and theoretically informed perspective. To understand the driving forces behind and obstacles to international cooperation in governing finance I combine concepts from international and comparative political economy. Different variants of capitalism have reacted in distinct ways to the collapse of the Bretton Woods System in the 1…
Democracy, Economic Crisis, and Market Oriented Reforms
In this paper I analyze the nexus between economic crises, market oriented reforms, and democratization in Indonesia and Korea since the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis. I provide some support for the hypothesis that democracies are better able to survive economic crises than authoritarian regimes. In both countries democratization facilitated a crisis resolution strategy based on market oriented reforms. However, I assert that in the long run the…
Trends and mechanisms of corruption in South Korea
Corruption remains one of the key obstacles to democratization and good governance. Given the nature of the subject, corruption is notoriously difficult to study. International comparisons and rankings of good governance such as the World Bank World Governance Indicators, the Bertelsmann Sustainable Governance Index, or Transparency International's Global Corruption Index are very useful for providing the big picture on corruption. To understand …
Democracy, Economic Crisis, and Market Oriented Reforms
In this paper I analyze the nexus between economic crises, market oriented reforms, and democratization in Indonesia and Korea since the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis. I provide some support for the hypothesis that democracies are better able to survive economic crises than authoritarian regimes. In both countries democratization facilitated a crisis resolution strategy based on market oriented reforms. However, I assert that in the long run the…
Korea's Recovery since the 1997/98 Financial Crisis: The Last Stage of the Developmental State
The Political Economy of Financial Liberalization in South Korea: State, Big Business, and Foreign Investors
This paper studies the political economy of financial liberalization in Korea. We highlight the primary importance of state intervention in promoting financial liberalization. We shed light on "power games" of state, big business, and foreign investors emerging in state-led financial liberalization, and their impact on the Korean economy
The politics of market reforms: Korea's path from Chaebol Republic to market democracy and back
This paper studies the politics of market-oriented reforms in Korea since the 1997/98 financial crisis. It focuses on the capacity of the state to implement these reforms, and challenges the view that successfully implemented market reforms follow a technocratic 'best practice' approach. On the contrary, this paper argues that reforms in Korea were relatively successful because they were political projects that went beyond ownership concepts of t…
Korea's Search for a Global Role between Hard Economic Interests and Soft Power
Regulating international finance and the diversity of capitalism
In this paper, I put the ongoing G20 process of improving the regulation of international finance into a historically and theoretically informed perspective. To understand the driving forces behind and obstacles to international cooperation in governing finance I combine concepts from international and comparative political economy. Different variants of capitalism have reacted in distinct ways to the collapse of the Bretton Woods System in the 1…
Second image IPE: Global economic imbalances and the ‘defects’ of the East Asian development model
Crisis management and the diversity of capitalism: Fiscal stimulus packages and the East Asian (neo-)developmental state
This paper contributes to the understanding of East Asian capitalism by investigating the political economy of crisis management in Japan, Korea and China during the global economic crisis. Reacting to the global shock of the economic crisis that began in 2008, East Asian capitalism has remained a distinct state-led model that differs substantially from the liberal, neo-corporatist or welfare state varieties of capitalism in the West. More specif…
Trends and mechanisms of corruption in South Korea
Corruption remains one of the key obstacles to democratization and good governance. Given the nature of the subject, corruption is notoriously difficult to study. International comparisons and rankings of good governance such as the World Bank World Governance Indicators, the Bertelsmann Sustainable Governance Index, or Transparency International's Global Corruption Index are very useful for providing the big picture on corruption. To understand …
South Korean Development Cooperation in Africa: The Legacy of a Developmental State
This paper investigates how the legacy of the South Korean developmental state influences the way the country conducts its development cooperation (DC) policies. We argue that institutions of the developmental state remain instrumental in structuring South Korea's cooperation with the developing world. Two country case studies of South Korean DC and investment projects in Mozambique and Rwanda show that state initiative and a strong state-busines…
The politics of climate change in a neo-developmental state: The case of South Korea
South Korea is the seventh largest emitter of CO2 and its climate-change mitigation policies are clearly insufficient. At the same time, the country has been very ambitious in implementing industrial policies promoting green technologies and international initiatives to support greenhouse gas mitigation in developing countries. What explains this discrepancy between weak emission goals and strong investments in green technology as well as ambitio…
National Growth Models and Global Capitalism: A Critique of Comparative Political Economy
This theoretical article offers a critical perspective on the stagnationist and methodologically nationalist foundations of the growth model approach in comparative political economy. Going back to Bhaduri and Marglin’s foundational work, we examine its stagnationist roots, focusing on the causal mechanisms that link national aggregate demand, profit, and investment, which create a congruence between capitalist accumulation and national economic …
Economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (8 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Economic system (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (5 works) · State (computer science (5 works)