CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Hwang, Inyong |
|---|---|
| Title | Origin of the Different Consequences of the Economic Crisis: Gramsci's 'Civil Society' in the Authoritarian Developmental State vs Polanyi's 'Active Society' in the European Periphery Case Study Between Republic of Korea and Greece |
| Summary | This research analyzes how the different path dependencies of prior capitalist models shaped the different countermovements against the economic crisis forcing the drastic ‘fictitious commodification' under the structural adjustment program imposed by IMF and Troika by a comparison of the South Korean and Greek cases. The study applies Michael Burawoy’s theories and concepts converging Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi for his sociological Marxism. He theorizes two different types of societies, 'civil society' and 'active society', with their particular interrelationship with state and market respectively. Applying this theoretical approach, this research analyzes how the path dependencies of South Korean export-oriented manufactured–centered authoritarian developmental model subsumed its 'civil society' in terms of Gramsci’s emphasis on the hegemonic relationship between state and its ‘civil society’. Also this research analyzes how the path dependency of Greek domestic-oriented financial-centered peripheral model culminated into the ‘active society’ in terms of Polanyi's focus on the dialectic double movement between market and society. Analyzing the sustainability of accumulation systems,transformation of historical blocs, and coevolution between capitalist models and societies, the case study proved that path dependencies of each capitalist models exert a great influence on the different sociopolitical consequences or countermovements in the economic crises. |
| Supervisor | Greskovits, Béla |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/hwang_inyong.pdf |
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