Titlebook: Politics in Contemporary Vietnam; Party, State, and Au Jonathan D. London Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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The Apparatus of Authoritarian Rule in Vietnam,sArmed Security Force (PASF), General Directorate II (military intelligence), and the Ministry of Culture and Information (MCI). The analysis that follows explores how authoritarian rule is implemented by examining the methods and tactics used to repress pro-democracy activists, bloggers, journalist

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The Political Influence of Civil Society in Vietnam,the pragmatic policy-making processes described by Jandl in this volume with the persistent rent-seeking found by Vu, or the paradox of a repressive state apparatus (Thayer) with varying degrees of tolerance toward dissent in practice (Kerkvliet). The gap between enthusiasm and gloom is perhaps at i

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Politics in Contemporary Vietnam,tensions and contradictions within Vietnam’spolitical economy itself. While the country’seconomy retains considerable potential, two decades of rapid economic growth has given way to a flagging economic performance.

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,Understanding the Confidence Vote in Vietnamese National Assembly: An Update on “Adverse Effects of Sunshine”,tarian politics, there have been relatively few in-depth studies of representative politics. In this context, this chapter attempts to embed the study of the Vietnamese parliament into the broader literature on authoritarian politics, and provide a road map for future research on Vietnamese politics.

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,State versus State: The Principal-Agent Problem in Vietnam’s Decentralizing Economic Reforms,tition for foreign investors. Contestation within the CPV at different levels of the Party apparatus is likely to impact forms of dissent and coercion, the development of civil society, and of course the (s)election processes of Party leaders.

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Toward a New Politics?,ly, we have noted the development of an increasingly vibrant and autonomous associational life and indeed an incipient and a relatively unmediated public political discourse. It will now be useful to reflect on the implications of all this for our understandings of politics in contemporary Vietnam.