Vietnam : : The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism / / Gareth Porter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Porter, Gareth,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and International Relations of Southeast Asia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 map

Here is the first scholarly book-length analysis of Communist Vietnam's political system. Taking advantage of the unprecedented wealth of revealing documentary material published in Vietnam since 1985, Gareth Porter offers new insights into the functioning of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and its management of the Vietnamese economy and society. He examines the evolution of the system from the time the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was founded in 1945 through the 1986-1990 period of economic liberalization and cautious political reform by the successor regime, the SRV.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Making of an Authoritarian Regime -- 2. The Socioeconomic Setting -- 3. Political Institutions: Party, State, and Mass Organizations -- 4. Leadership Selection and Policy-making -- 5. Bureaucratic Centralism and Economic Liberalization -- 6. Political Participation and Human Rights -- 7. Vietnamese Foreign Policy: Ideology and Constraints -- Glossary -- Index