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Civil society and governance in Vietnam’s one party system

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  • Title:
    Civil society and governance in Vietnam’s one party system
  • Author: Bui, Hai Thiem
  • Subjects: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific ; Civil society ; Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) ; Governance and public policy ; Party-state ; School of Political Science and International Studies ; Vietnam
  • Description: Civil society has been in operation under one-Party rule in Vietnam for a number of years since Doi Moi policy was launched in 1986. Conventional scholarship holds that civil society, under an authoritarian state, is either heavily repressed or co-opted by the state. The emergence and development of a reasonably genuine civil society in the past two decades in an authoritarian state like Vietnam thus raises an intriguing puzzle.The objective of this thesis is to investigate the development of Vietnam's civil society in the oneparty system over the past two decades. At a certain level, civil society has only reluctantly been "tolerated" by the party-state but at the same time has played an important role in the nation's governance network and national development. Given the party-state's continuing suspicion over the potential threat of civil society to regime stability and subsequent discouragement of its existence, it has never been an easy project for civil society to make its way into Vietnamese society.The core argument of this thesis is that power is diffused in civil society and generates pressure for incremental socio-political changes. Civil society in Vietnam is not only viable, engaging and contemporary but also increasingly embraces a more overt, vocal, and contentious character. An unprecedented range of actors including state, non-state, quasi-state and hybrid ones engage in critical debates on democratic freedoms, transparency, accountability, and meaningful participation. I examine these critical issues across four key functional areas of governance: law-making related to civil society, poverty reduction, environment, and anti-corruption. Counter-hegemonic manoeuvres are present in these four themes, revealing complex aspects of struggles around ideas and values in state-civil society relations. These struggles serve as fundamental platforms for the changing dynamics of governance in Vietnam. Source: TROVE
  • Creation Date: 2015
  • Language: English
  • Source: Trove Australian Thesis (Full Text Open Access)
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