Download or read book Beyond Hanoi written by Benedict J Tria Kerkvliet and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2004 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to examine local government and authority in Vietnam since the country's reunification in 1975. Six chapters emphasize particular villages and districts in different parts of the country, one examines a ward in Hanoi, another focuses on Ho Chi Minh City, and one compares leaders in several provinces. To contextualize conditions today, two chapters analyse local government in Vietnam's long history. The opening chapter synthesizes the findings in this book with those in other studies by researchers inside and outside Vietnam.
Download or read book Beyond Hanoi written by Benedict J. Kerkvliet and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2004 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of local government and authority in Vietnam since the 1975 reunification asks: what local institutions and offices have authority to govern; who are the local officials and how do they get appointed; what do local governments do and what interests do they serve; and what do residents say about local officials and governing institutions?
Download or read book Local Administration in Vietnam written by Lloyd Wilbur Woodruff and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Viet Minh Regime written by Bernard B. Fall and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Authority Relations and Economic Decision making in Vietnam written by Phong Đặng and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the evolution of state institutions since 1945 in Vietnam in order to understand the continuities since the commencement of market-oriented economic reforms as well as the extent to which rapid social change has altered authority relations and decision-making processes. It looks particularly at relations between the Communist Party, government and legislature and at those between central and local authorities. What emerges is a more democratic or pluralist system than is portrayed in the 'totalitarian' and 'bureaucratic authoritarian' models. This helps to explain the apparent flexibility of the Vietnamese political system in the face of rapid economic transition, as well as strengths and weaknesses in the democratization process.
Download or read book Reforming Local Government in Vietnam written by Huong Phan and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the period of globalization, many country around the world has followed decentralization towards good governance and democracy. However, the impact of decentralization depends on how it is implemented. Vietnam has embarked on decentralization since 1990s; however, Vietnam is still facing with many issues such as corruption, red-tape, misuse of state powers.Significantly, under the single party policy and democratic centralism principle, Vietnam has to carry out decentralization by her own way. Recognizing the important role of local government in promoting effectiveness of decentralization, this book indicates the needs to reforming local government system in Vietnam towards good governance and democratic society based on the experiences of Japan.
Download or read book Wards of Hanoi written by David Wee Hock Koh and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author marshals evidence to support an arena-specific approach towards viewing Vietnam's state-society relations. In practice, the Vietnamese party-state's relations with society vary from the hard and uncompromising state, with the bureaucracy getting its way, to society's ability to negotiate the state's boundaries and regimes to make them less harsh. Any analysis of Vietnam's state-society relations needs to recognize and demonstrate both elements of dominance and accommodation, as well as specify the context in which either or both are seen. Alone, neither is adequate. In particular, the idea of the "state" needs to be disaggregated because "state" is not a singular actor that is coherent or uniform through time and space. To demonstrate how state-disaggregation can make our view more nuanced, this book analyses state-society interaction at the ward level of Hanoi, an urban local authority.
Download or read book Regional Development in Vietnam written by Hy V. Luong and published by North York, Ont. : University of Toronto - York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies. This book was released on 1996 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Provincial local Administration Series Report written by Michigan State University. Vietnam Advisory Group and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making the law on organisation of local government in accordance with the constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Provincial Government in Viet Nam written by Jason Leonard Finkle and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Administration in Vi t Nam written by Lloyd Wilbur Woodruff and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organisational Adventures in District Government written by Natalie Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of sub-national government in rural Vietnam have focused on the commune and province level governments. This dissertation is an examination of district (huyen) government. It shows that the district was important to the central government both before the Communist victory in 1975 and afterwards and that the district level has remained a primary interface between the villagers and higher authorities. This study also examines tensions between central governments' attempts to control rural areas and localist tendencies that exist within district administrations.The dissertation focuses on selected districts in Long An province in the Mekong Delta during three periods: the wartime South Vietnamese regime, which existed below the seventeenth parallel from 1955 until its defeat by the Communists in 1975; the late 1970s and 1980s when the Communist government in Hanoi pursued a district-building campaign; and the reform era of the 1990s. Under the South Vietnamese regime and in the pre-reform era of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, local initiative was stifled as policy was dictated by the central government, with disastrous consequences. Most literature on this subject emphasises a sharp break between pre-1975 and post-1975 Vietnam. By contrast, this dissertation highlights the way in which there are important elements of continuity between both regimes in terms of central government measures to control district government through administrative re-organisation and top-down policy implementation. In the reform era, the dynamics of central regulation versus district control have changed. The district government now has greater latitude to develop innovative 'local' approaches to agricultural development. Using a state-in-society approach that is generous enough to avoid definitive boundaries between state and society, the study examines how district officials have been joined by 'associates of the state', particularly agricultural extension officers, who act as a link between state and societal objectives. This interaction has contributed to increased prosperity for many villagers while also raising inequality. The study also shows that while the central government has been more willing to allow local experimentation during the reform era, its influence and interests are still felt at the district level.
Download or read book Vietnam One Party State and the Mimicry of the Civil Society written by John Kleinen and published by Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the issues of civil society, “good governance”, and the role of NGOs in Vietnam part of a discursive discourse that is linked to a growing development industry in which development studies and economics dominate? Kleinen questions these issues based upon longitudinal research in Vietnam since the early 1990s. In this study, an effort is made to explain the concrete interactions between authorities of the Vietnamese one-party state and its citizens by introducing an attitude of participants to conceal their real intentions with the intent to disguise their actions in order to obtain benefits for their own. Using the concept of mimicry the author tries to grasp what it means to live in a society where political and economic life is dominated by elite groups and were social change is coming from different directions. Two case studies are presented here: one in which local stakeholders of home stay tourism achieve their goals to develop an acceptable form of co-habitation with ethnic minorities without questioning the state. Another case study focuses upon the rapid urbanization of the periphery of Hanoi where land grabbing and private economic gains of outsiders are at loggerheads with local experiences and perceptions of state-village relationships. The question remains what it means for Vietnam's modernization and the prospects of a civil society.
Download or read book The Government of Mistrust written by Ken MacLean and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the creation and misuse of government documents in Vietnam since the 1920s, The Government of Mistrust reveals how profoundly the dynamics of bureaucracy have affected Vietnamese efforts to build a socialist society. In examining the flurries of paperwork and directives that moved back and forth between high- and low-level officials, Ken MacLean underscores a paradox: in trying to gather accurate information about the realities of life in rural areas, and thus better govern from Hanoi, the Vietnamese central government employed strategies that actually made the state increasingly illegible to itself. MacLean exposes a falsified world existing largely on paper. As high-level officials attempted to execute centralized planning via decrees, procedures, questionnaires, and audits, low-level officials and peasants used their own strategies to solve local problems. To obtain hoped-for aid from the central government, locals overstated their needs and underreported the resources they actually possessed. Higher-ups attempted to re-establish centralized control and legibility by creating yet more bureaucratic procedures. Amidst the resulting mistrust and ambiguity, many low-level officials were able to engage in strategic action and tactical maneuvering that have shaped socialism in Vietnam in surprising ways.
Download or read book Politics in War written by Allan E. Goodman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Internal war does not create politics or processes of government. This is likely to be the most tragic aspect of the war in Vietnam. When the guns are silent, the political analyst will find essentially the same political forces and governmental institutions intact as when the conflict began." Politics in War deals mainly with the years 1967-1970 but bears on the problems South Vietnam faces now that American forces are no longer active. The book provides an understanding of Vietnamese politics, the forces underlying it, and the bases upon which political community and a future political settlement might be achieved. Mr. Goodman has based his analysis on first-hand research. He conducted over 300 interviews with Vietnamese political leaders and government officials. His field work in South Vietnam encompassed three years and he presents materials from such sources as South Vietnam's National Assembly, its Ministry of Interior, and the U.S. Department of State's Vietnam Working Group. Politics in War presents the untold story of how the Vietnamese saw the period of deepest American involvement. Goodman supplies background material on the Thieu government, its motivations, and its response to the people. Students of politics who have been concerned about what the Vietnam involvement meant to America can now better assess what the last decade has meant to the Vietnamese.
Download or read book Changing Political Economy of Vietnam written by Martin Gainsborough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the way in which the state has become commercialised under reform as party and government officials have gone into business and considers the impact that this has had on politics within Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. The book charts the way in which power has been decentralised to the lower levels of the party-state but argues that the central state retains significant power. These issues are explored through a variety of case studies including the implementation of different reform policies, struggles over political and business activity, and the prosecution of two major corruption cases. Particular emphasis is placed on piecing together the myriad of informal practices which dominate business and political life in Vietnam.
