Wards of Hanoi / / David Wee Hock Koh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Koh, David Wee Hock,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- 1. Mediation Space in Everyday Urban Situations of Hà Nội -- 2. The Ward and Neighbourhood State–Society Relations -- 3. Party-State Dominance in Elections and the Ward -- 4. Wards’ Implementation of the Pavement Order Regime 156 in Hà Nội -- 5. The Housing Regimes and Hà Nội Wards’ Role -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author