Vietnam : Rethinking the State /: Rethinking the State. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martin Gainsborough.
• Authors: Gainsborough, Martin
• Contents: About the author; Map of Vietnam; Preface; Introduction; An approach to studying politics; Continuity and change in politics; The inappropriateness of reform as an organizational motif; Structure of the book; 1 Communist party rule; Box 1.1 Vietnam's formal political system at a glance; Changing class interests under reform; State power; Transnational forces; From one-party rule to what?; Conclusion; 2 New state business interests; Ho Chi Minh City's depiction in the literature; Questioning the received wisdom; The rise of new state business interests Box 2.1 New state business in Ho Chi Minh City in the 1990sExisting state enterprises diversifying into new areas; The establishment of new state enterprises; The formation of private companies; The growth of the gatekeeping state; Table 2.1 Public-sector employment by local management in Ho Chi Minh City; Table 2.2 Public-sector employment in Ho Chi Minh City, 1990-98; Reformist or more parochial interests?; Conclusion: explaining Ho Chi Minh City's evolution under 'reform'; 3 Corruption; The literature on corruption; Decentralization; Recentralization; Tamexco's rise; Tamexco's fall Why did Tamexco fall?Conclusion; 4 Hollowing out the state; Why did equitization initially proceed so slowly before speeding up?; The push factor: less hospitable conditions in the state sector; The pull factor: improving the private-sector climate; Assessing the performance of equitized enterprises; Box 4.1 Post-equitization performance in three provinces; The manner of equitization: future implications; Discipline and encouragement; The nature of ownership: insiders or outsiders?; The nature of ownership: concentrated or diffuse?; Box 4.2 Ownership breakdown of 336 equitized companies TransparencyValuing state enterprise assets; Continued state ownership: cash flow and property rights issues; Conclusion; 5 Uncertainty as aninstrument of rule; Privatization as state advance; The companies; Company attitude to equitization; State attitude to equitization; How long did equitization take?; Shareholding structure after equitization; Company directors after equitization; Firm decision-making after equitization; Equitization as 'private indirect government'; Conclusion; Box 5.1 Additional background on companies interviewed; 6 Local politics; Globalization and the state Conceptualizing the stateBox 6.1 Why the state matters: views from enterprises in Vietnam's Lao Cai and Tay Ninh provinces; Cross-border flows; Table 6.1 Expanded trade flows in the Greater Mekong Subregion; Private and transnational actors; Table 6.2 Private-sector growth in Lao Cai and Tay Ninh; Box 6.2 Transnational organizations in Lao Cai and Tay Ninh; A stronger state in the era of globalization explained; Box 6.3 Origins of private-sector actors in Vietnam's Lao Cai and Tay Ninh provinces; Conclusion; 7 Sharing the spoils; Box 7.1 What is the Political Report?
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 320.9597; Political science -- Vietnam; Political science; Vietnam; Vietnam; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848139077; 1848139071
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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