Member of the Center for Economic Reserach Associate professor of comparative social policy at the University of Oxford Varieties of capitalism, growth models, Poland as a “dependent market economy”, politics of developmentalism, industrial policies, labour market reforms, pension financialisation, qualitative methods E-mail: marek.naczyk@spi.ox.ac.ukPosition:
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BIO
Marek Naczyk is an associate professor of comparative social policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford. He defended his doctorate in politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, in 2013. He is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po Paris. In 2023-4, he was a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is a member of French team of experts for the European Social Policy Network.
RESEARCH AGENDA
His substantive research is at the crossroads of comparative political economy (CPE) and international political economy (IPE). It focuses on the influence of various political actors – producer groups, political parties, bureaucrats, etc. – on the design of social policies and developmental/growth strategies in Western Europe, East-Central Europe and North America. He also has a methodological research agenda that focuses on the method of process tracing.
As part of his research on Polish capitalism, he has previously written about the privatization of pensions (open pension funds and employee capital plans), the privatization of state-owned enterprises and the impact those two types of privatizations have had on the rise of the Warsaw Stock Exchange and Warsaw as a financial centre. Currently, he is studying the politics of developmentalism in Poland in comparative perspective. In that context, he has written about the “repolonisation” of Polish banking, the creation of the Polish Development Fund (PFR) and the politics of minimum wages and labour costs in Poland and Hungary.
Given the relative dearth of research on the politics of Polish capitalism (and other East-Central European capitalisms) in the subfields of CPE and IPE, he is keen on supervising doctoral candidates interested in doing this type of research, which can focus on a variety of policy areas. Potential applicants should feel free to contact him via email (marek.naczyk@spi.ox.ac.uk).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
about Polish “developmentalism” and Poland’s “dependent market economy”
- Naczyk, M. (forthcoming) “Dependency and developmentalism in Poland’s FDI-led growth model” In K. Grzybowska-Walecka et al. (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Naczyk, M. and Eihmanis, E. (2023) “Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary”, Competition & Change, early view.
- Naczyk, M. (2022) “Taking back control: Comprador bankers and managerial developmentalism in Poland”, Review of International Political Economy, 29(5): 1650-74.
about pension privatisation and the privatisation of state-owned enterprises in East-Central Europe
- Naczyk, M (2019) “Pension privatization as a boon to stock market development? Financial ideas, reform complementarities and the divergent fates of Hungary’s and Poland’s pension fund industries”In D.O. Nijhuis (ed.) Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Naczyk, M. (2018) “When finance captures labor’s capital: dominant personal pensions, resurgent occupational provision in Central and Eastern Europe”, Social Policy & Administration, 52(2): 549-562.
- Naczyk, M. (2016) “The financial crisis and varieties of pension privatization reversals in Eastern Europe”, Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions 29 (2): 167-184.
about pension privatisation in Western Europe
- Hassel, A., Naczyk, M. and Wiss, T. (2019) “The political economy of pension financialization: Public policy responses to the crisis”, Journal of European Public Policy, 26(4): 483-500.
- Naczyk, M. and Seeleib-Kaiser, M. (2015) “Solidarity against all odd: Trade unions and the privatization of pensions in the age of dualization”, Politics & Society, 43(3): 361-384.
- Naczyk, M (2013) “Agents of privatization? Business groups and the rise of pension funds in continental Europe”, Socio-Economic Review, 11(3): 441-469.