Politics in Contemporary Vietnam

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Politics in Contemporary Vietnam

   • Jonathan D. London

   Pages 1-20

3. Persistence Amid Decay: The Communist Party of Vietnam at 83

   • Tuong Vu

   Pages 21-41

4. Authoritarianism Reconfigured: Evolving Accountability Relations within Vietnam’s One-Party Rule

   • Thaveeporn Vasavakul

   Pages 42-63

5. State versus State: The Principal-Agent Problem in Vietnam’s Decentralizing Economic Reforms

   • Thomas Jandl

   Pages 64-83

6. Understanding the Confidence Vote in Vietnamese National Assembly: An Update on “Adverse Effects of Sunshine”

   • Edmund J. Malesky

   Pages 84-99

7. Government Repression and Toleration of Dissidents in Contemporary Vietnam

   • Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

   Pages 100-134

8. The Apparatus of Authoritarian Rule in Vietnam

   • Carlyle A. Thayer

   Pages 135-161

9. The Political Influence of Civil Society in Vietnam

   • Andrew Wells-Dang

   Pages 162-183

10. Toward a New Politics?

    • Jonathan D. London

    Pages 184-195

11. Back Matter

    Pages 196-229

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Vietnam's political development has entered an extraordinary, if indeterminate, phase. Comprising contributions from leading Vietnam scholars, this volume comprehensively explores the core aspects of Vietnam's politics, providing a cutting-edge analysis of politics in one of East Asia's least understood countries.

• Vietnam
• authoritarianism
• comparative politics
• Southeast Asia
• communism
• government
• politics
• reforms

“Politics in Contemporary Vietnam is a most welcome contribution towards better fathoming the changes the country is undergoing. All of the chapters contribute towards a better understanding of Vietnamese politics, although in quite different ways. … the chapters in this volume complement each other nicely and together form a strong contribution to the field.” (Arve Hansen, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 46 (1), 2016)

• City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  Jonathan D. London

Thomas Jandl, American University, Washington DC, USA Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet, Australian National University, Australia Edmund Malesky, Duke University, USA Carlyle A. Thayer, The University of New South Wales, Australia Thaveeporn Vasavakul, Governance Support Facility Initiatives (GoSFI), USA Tuong Vu, University of Oregon, USA Andrew Wells-Dang, Advocacy Coalition Support Program, Vietnam

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