The Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea: Crony Capitalism after Ten Years

Asian Survey ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 894-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong-Chool Ha ◽  
Wang Hwi Lee
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Corporate Restructuring ◽  
Financial Reform ◽  
Labor Market Flexibility ◽  
Crony Capitalism

The post-crisis economic reforms in South Korea have been uneven. While financial reform has been thoroughly carried out, corporate restructuring and labor market flexibility have not been successfully implemented to transform the micro-behavior of the chaebol and labor unions. The unevenness of economic reform is attributable to sociopolitical dynamics.

Introduction National Liberalisms in Illiberal States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark I. Vail
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Financial Policies ◽  
Neoliberal Reform ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

This chapter situates the book in theoretical and empirical contexts. It provides a brief overview of competing theoretical approaches to explaining trajectories of economic reform in continental Europe in the era of austerity and transnational neoliberalism since the early 1990s. Since standard analyses of “neoliberal” reform fail to capture these dynamics of economic reform in continental Europe, as do conventional institutionalist and interest-based accounts, it argues for an approach that emphasizes the political power of ideas and highlights the influence of national liberal traditions—French “statist liberalism,” German “corporate liberalism,” and Italian “clientelist liberalism.” It provides a brief overview of the remainder of the book, which uses a study of national liberal traditions to explain trajectories of reform in fiscal, labor-market, and financial policies in France, Germany, and Italy, three countries that have rejected neoliberal approaches to reform in a neoliberal age.

scholarly journals Gewerkschaftssterben in Kolumbien

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (130) ◽  
pp. 51-75
Author(s):  
Raul Zelik
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
The Public

The persecution of labor unionists by paramilitarian groups, the policy of deregulation of the labor market, and the criminalization of labor unions in the public sector seem to pursue the same strategy, Its aim is the weakening or disappearance of organizations that resist a policy which is friendly to (transnational) capital. The 200 murders that are committed every year against Colombian unionists, in that sense, are not only a result of civil war, The article reads the violence in Colombia as an appearance of globalization process.

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