Does the Concept of Patchwork Capitalism Fit the Polish Case? A Response to the Review by Marek Garbicz
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The article is a response to Marek Garbicz’s critical review of the new conceptualization of patchwork capitalism, published in this issue of WFES. The authors argue with the core belief of the reviewer underlying his whole line of argument that the complete picture of Post-Communist capitalism in Poland and selected CEE countries has already been built, as embodied in the concept of a ‘dependent market economy’ put forward by Nölke and Vliegenthart in 2009, and that nothing new can be added to this picture. They simultaneously discard the resulting criticisms of the new conceptualization spelled out by Garbicz pointing out that his arguments are largely unfounded, and may be due to his misperception of the very idea of patchwork capitalism and misguided interpretation of the relevant arguments underlying this idea, coupled with some gaps and weaknesses in his own reasoning. They therefore stand by their position that the new, “ideal-typical” conceptualization of patchwork capitalism developed in their 2021 article in WFES is a new, standalone research category which adds value to the multi-causal explanation of the complex, multidimensional
and multi-layer nature and unique institutional features of the new socio-economic order existing in Poland and selected CEE countries. Hence, according to the authors, it fits the Polish case, as well as the case of those countries, provided though that it is interpreted in terms of Max Weber’s ideal type rather than empirical generalization.
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