Adam Fforde
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 739669 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Adam Fforde |
| PRENOMES | Adam |
| SOBRENOME | Fforde |
| ASSINATURA | FFORDE A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Victoria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6088-8310 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Is social policy now a well-established but ‘new’ form of economic development
Purposive Action Under Conditions of Unpredictability
The commentary addresses, with constructive suggestions, the tension between common beliefs that development knowledge is not predictive and the general requirement that it be used to support instrumental action (using devices such as the log frame or theories of change that embody ideas that X will lead to Y). I suggest that this tension is best resolved differently from much current practice, which tends to fudge the issue. I draw two central i…
Vietnamese Patterns of Corruption and Accumulation
This article explores ways to better understand corruption in Vietnam and the nature of Vietnamese capitalism. Given the current state of research, its arguments are not conclusive and focus upon empirics and issues in existing research. Regarding empirics, good data imply that corrupt payments by firms to Party officials are now so large – perhaps a quarter of gross domestic product – that their macro-systemic impacts must be, whilst still uncle…
The Limits of National Liberation
This book, first published in 1987, examines the experience of the North Vietnamese economy during the struggle for national reunification and the Vietnam war. It chronicles the impact of war and Socialist Construction upon an extremely poor area left undeveloped by French colonial exploitation. The analysis focuses on the severe restraints that faced socio-economic development in North Vietnam, and the adverse effects of forced development based…
Vietnam and Covid-19
In 2021, harsh and incoherent policies and lack of trust in public opinion characterised the Communist Party of Vietnam's reaction to COVID-19.This contrasted with the very different atmosphere in early 2020.I had previously reported on surveys giving the Party high approval ratings for its COVID-19 response, and evidence indicating Party acceptance of the positive role of public opinion in developing good policy (including that expressed on Face…
The Limits of National Liberation
This book looks at the experience of the North Vietnamese economy during the struggle for national reunification and the Vietnamese war, based upon a unique collection of Vietnamese data and Vietnamese literature
Vietnam and Covid-19
A Vietnamese insider discusses the origins of the 1968 Tet Offensive – what is he trying to tell us
The book ‘The winning side’, by Huy Duc, is revealing in two ways. First, it presents an account of how the historically crucial episode of the 1968 Tet offensive was, as an event seen as caused by decisions in Hanoi (clearly, these are proximate causes, as the historical context is far greater in scope), ‘decided upon’. Second, in that Huy Duc’s account tells us much about his views of how these decisions were taken, and their political milieu, …
A Public Affair? Vietnam’s State Enterprise Sector
The article presents a history of the policy of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) towards state owned enterprises (SOEs). Despite an evident embrace of markets from the early 1990s, the VCP has resisted formal political change. The state sector has retained a privileged economic and political position. Policy has been made in the context of a political order where the interests of certain groups within the ostensibly hierarchical state have us…
From Plan to Market
This clear and accessible text explores Vietnam's successful transition from neo-Stalinist central planning to a market economy—\"Vietnamese style.\" After describing the north Vietnamese system prior to 1975 and its colonial and precolonial antecedents, the authors uncover the mechanisms of that changeover. They contend that the Vietnamese transition was largely bottom-up in character and that it evolved over a long enough period for the country…
Yes, but what about the authority of policy analysts? A commentary and discussion of Perl et al., ‘Policy-making and truthiness
From 'Constructing Socialism' to a 'Socialist-oriented Market Economy' in Contemporary Vietnam
In power, the Vietnamese Communist Party has experienced three 'moments' of growth, each with some differences of detail and of meanings: 'traditional communism'; the transition from a planned to a market economy in the 1980s; and, since 1992, a 'socialist-oriented market economy'. For each, the article discusses the ideologically defined nature of change; intentionality-'how growth was to happen'; and the quantitative data used. It suggests that…
Yes, but what about services
Since the early 1990s, the service sector has played an increasing role in economic growth in poor countries. This contradicts mainstream views of industrialisation as the central driver of growth. Yet, mainstream scholars and policy makers have so far failed to accommodate the "anomaly" of servicisation into development doctrine or theory – as keyword searches of the World Bank's World Development Reports and of academic output in EBSCO show. Th…
What Might International Development Assistance Be Able to Tell Us About Contemporary “Policy Government” in Developed Countries
The article examines international development assistance—aid. Donors assert that experts possess predictive knowledge and project belief in such knowledge into organizational form—the Logical Framework Approach. While such beliefs lack predictive power, as aid operates under multiple sovereignty conditions, no single authority determines truth. Donors ease pressure on experts by accepting variation in intervention logics, yet assert the validity…
Developmental Knowledge Production in Cambodia
The effects of foreign trade on the environment in the cases of rice, cassava, and fish in Cambodia are examined in this article, but as a case study analyzing markers of developmental discursive practice. The study identifies and analyzes five rhetorical techniques in discursive practice—assertion, provincialism, dismissal of positive outcomes, reference to external causes, and policy fetishism—then argues that these have in common the denial of…
Political Authority in Vietnam
In a contribution to the political analysis of contemporary Vietnam – a single-party state often wrongly assumed to be an author of reform and deploying considerable and varied powers – this paper seeks to provide an understanding of the Vietnamese term ‘authority’ ( uy) and its relationship to power. Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan serves as a reference to the notion of authority in Vietnam and is compared to data: what the Vietnamese thought their wor…
Vietnam
The paper examines the nature of the growing Vietnamese economy and its changing structural characteristics and contrasts this with two core elements of official thinking. The first element is the slogan of ‘industrialisation and modernisation’ (IM) and how this sits with the rather fast current growth in the services sectors, given the issues of transitioning through the recently reached ‘middle income status’. The second is that of “a socialist…
Cambodia – Donor Playground
This paper suggests that we may learn much about mainstream doctrines and practices of governance from watching what happens when they engage with international development issues. Cambodia is an i
The Politics of Civil Society Organisation in Cambodia and Vietnam
The paper examines the correct analytical positioning of foreign donors’ aid support for civil society in Cambodia and Vietnam. It is argued that references to the ‘state’ should include political activities (by donors) in order to better understand the effects of the different donors’ strategies in the two countries. By discussing the question of sovereignty, the paper argues that the weakness of civil society in Vietnam is linked to the weaknes…
Vietnam in 2012
The paper reviews political and other trajectories in Vietnam in 2012, concluding that a systemic political crisis continues. Trying to rule over an increasingly open and globalizing society with unreformed Communist political institutions, the Vietnamese Communist Party has seen its institutional authority evaporate, so that it no longer functions as a coherent source of sovereign power
Post-Cold War Vietnam
The paper compares political ideas and acts in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev and in Communist Vietnam. It argues that the Gorbachev group, committed to progressive change, concluded that power granted to them by their position in the Soviet system needed to be eliminated, creating a ‘boot strap’ problem. To secure progressive change they had first to destroy their own power base. By contrast, the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) attempt…
Vietnam in 2011
Tensions in the international arena are linked here to problems in contemporary Vietnam. Eroding domestic political authority is related to the lack of political reconstruction to suit a market economy and an increasingly open society. At the close of 2011, it appears that there is as yet no clear path forward
Policy Recommendations as Spurious Predictions
Lao Tzu and Marx together provide the basis of an epistemology based on ignorance—not on knowledge. The failure of an epistemology based on knowledge is shown by the internal inconsistencies afflicting mainstream economics: Economic theory predicts certain empirical phenomena but these fail to reveal themselves. In fact, the strongest research finding in development economics is that there are almost no robust empirical relationships between an i…
Contemporary Vietnam
This article examines contemporary Vietnamese politics and argues that many opportunities remain for political rethinking. It examines linguistic arguments that point to a perpetuation of traditional Communist ideas in two crucial areas—village elections and the treatment of “policy.” It then juxtaposes this formal conservatism with two areas of tension. First, problems exist in addressing important policy questions related to rural development, …
Rethinking the Political Economy of Conservative Transition
The transition ‘from plan to market’ under a politically conservative regime in Vietnam, where the communist party remains in power, can be seen as an example of a process in which evolving endogenous forces drove and resourced institutional change. Two sets of phenomena are analytically important. The first may be understood as the creation and seeking out of economic rents in the ‘neo-classical’ sense of resources available ‘below economic cost…
Vietnam in 2004
Vietnam in 2004 saw a combination of rapid economic growth with continued evidence of weak central political authority. The ruling Vietnamese Communist Party, having granted greater freedoms in order to legitimize dissent, refused to abandon its Leninist politics that were hostile toward what appears to be a rapidly emerging “civil society.” The loss of quotas on exports of garments and footwear and slow progress toward joining the World Trade Or…
A methodology for analysing the process of economic reform in Vietnam
Examination of the process of reform in domestic trade suggests that Vietnamese economic reforms are the result of an essentially political process dating back to the 1970s. Political change can be explained in terms of the interests and objectives of groups in society interacting with the economic context to produce political action. Also important is the changing cognition of different actors about how their objectives could be given expression…
Yes, but what about services
Since the early 1990s, the service sector has played an increasing role in economic growth in poor countries. This contradicts mainstream views of industrialisation as the central driver of growth. Yet, mainstream scholars and policy makers have so far failed to accommodate the "anomaly" of servicisation into development doctrine or theory – as keyword searches of the World Bank's World Development Reports and of academic output in EBSCO show. Th…
Political Authority in Vietnam
In a contribution to the political analysis of contemporary Vietnam – a single-party state often wrongly assumed to be an author of reform and deploying considerable and varied powers – this paper seeks to provide an understanding of the Vietnamese term ‘authority’ ( uy) and its relationship to power. Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan serves as a reference to the notion of authority in Vietnam and is compared to data: what the Vietnamese thought their wor…
Cambodia – Donor Playground
This paper suggests that we may learn much about mainstream doctrines and practices of governance from watching what happens when they engage with international development issues. Cambodia is an i
Post-Cold War Vietnam
The paper compares political ideas and acts in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev and in Communist Vietnam. It argues that the Gorbachev group, committed to progressive change, concluded that power granted to them by their position in the Soviet system needed to be eliminated, creating a ‘boot strap’ problem. To secure progressive change they had first to destroy their own power base. By contrast, the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) attempt…
Vietnam in 2011
Tensions in the international arena are linked here to problems in contemporary Vietnam. Eroding domestic political authority is related to the lack of political reconstruction to suit a market economy and an increasingly open society. At the close of 2011, it appears that there is as yet no clear path forward
Responses to the ‘policy science’ problem
Taking as its point of departure the failure of the ‘policy science’ project, the article discusses the declining authority of ‘one size fits all’ policy advice. It relates this to the absence of a robust empirical basis for such positions, as shown by the cross-country regressions literature, and relates it also to changes in a range of disciplines, including natural sciences and mathematics. It discusses the rising tolerance for inconsistency b…
Luck, Policy or Something Else Entirely? Vietnam's Economic Performance in 2009 and Prospects for 2010
Vietnam's economic performance in 2009 is seen by the Vietnamese government and representatives of the Western donor communities as good, with the effects of the global financial crisis relatively mild. The paper notes a lack of contestation of these mainstream views and locates them within an assessment of major trends in 2009, and medium-term issues. Particular focus is placed upon the policy implications of rural development and the need for a…
Vietnamese Patterns of Corruption and Accumulation
This article explores ways to better understand corruption in Vietnam and the nature of Vietnamese capitalism. Given the current state of research, its arguments are not conclusive and focus upon empirics and issues in existing research. Regarding empirics, good data imply that corrupt payments by firms to Party officials are now so large – perhaps a quarter of gross domestic product – that their macro-systemic impacts must be, whilst still uncle…
A Public Affair? Vietnam’s State Enterprise Sector
The article presents a history of the policy of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) towards state owned enterprises (SOEs). Despite an evident embrace of markets from the early 1990s, the VCP has resisted formal political change. The state sector has retained a privileged economic and political position. Policy has been made in the context of a political order where the interests of certain groups within the ostensibly hierarchical state have us…
Vietnam
The paper examines the nature of the growing Vietnamese economy and its changing structural characteristics and contrasts this with two core elements of official thinking. The first element is the slogan of ‘industrialisation and modernisation’ (IM) and how this sits with the rather fast current growth in the services sectors, given the issues of transitioning through the recently reached ‘middle income status’. The second is that of “a socialist…
Contemporary Vietnam
This article examines contemporary Vietnamese politics and argues that many opportunities remain for political rethinking. It examines linguistic arguments that point to a perpetuation of traditional Communist ideas in two crucial areas—village elections and the treatment of “policy.” It then juxtaposes this formal conservatism with two areas of tension. First, problems exist in addressing important policy questions related to rural development, …
Vietnam in 2003
2003 in Vietnam saw good economic performance combined with ongoing high levels of corruption and Communist Party concerns over governance issues. Social differentiation continued to climb, with signs of gathering social unrest as “trickle-down” effects fell away
Yes, but what about the authority of policy analysts? A commentary and discussion of Perl et al., ‘Policy-making and truthiness
From 'Constructing Socialism' to a 'Socialist-oriented Market Economy' in Contemporary Vietnam
In power, the Vietnamese Communist Party has experienced three 'moments' of growth, each with some differences of detail and of meanings: 'traditional communism'; the transition from a planned to a market economy in the 1980s; and, since 1992, a 'socialist-oriented market economy'. For each, the article discusses the ideologically defined nature of change; intentionality-'how growth was to happen'; and the quantitative data used. It suggests that…
Vietnam in 2012
The paper reviews political and other trajectories in Vietnam in 2012, concluding that a systemic political crisis continues. Trying to rule over an increasingly open and globalizing society with unreformed Communist political institutions, the Vietnamese Communist Party has seen its institutional authority evaporate, so that it no longer functions as a coherent source of sovereign power
Rethinking the Political Economy of Conservative Transition
The transition ‘from plan to market’ under a politically conservative regime in Vietnam, where the communist party remains in power, can be seen as an example of a process in which evolving endogenous forces drove and resourced institutional change. Two sets of phenomena are analytically important. The first may be understood as the creation and seeking out of economic rents in the ‘neo-classical’ sense of resources available ‘below economic cost…
Economics, History, and the Origins of Vietnam's Post-War Economic Success
During the 1990s, skeptical aid donors confronted an example of development “success” in Vietnam. Understanding this requires reflection upon economic conditions in North Vietnam prior to 1975. These conditions created important prerequisites for a successful transition to a market economy, sufficiently guided by local reformists so as not to unduly threaten stability, and sufficiently reflective of realities that it could work
Socio-economic Differentiation in a Mature Collectivised Agriculture
In response to Jayne Werner's “Socialist development
Vietnamese Studies continues to suffer from a malady that quite naturally reflects both its relative academic neglect and its comparative isolation from other areas of scholarly study—concerned or otherwise. This seems to take the form of a combination of inadequate in-depth research and a premature desire to confront basic and fundamental problems. One result is the presentation of under-substantiated assertions about the nature of Vietnamese so…
The Unimplementability of Policy and the Notion of Law in Vietnamese Communist Thought
Socio-economic Differentiation in a Mature Collectivised Agriculture
The Agrarian Question in North Vietnam, 1974-79
This volume investigates why peasants defend themselves against the predations of politics by using such "everyday" forms of protest as footdragging, feigned ignorance, false compliance, etc. With a cross-section of countries, historical time periods, and ideologies, the case studies illustrate the variety of forms of everyday peasant resistance and their consequences
A methodology for analysing the process of economic reform in Vietnam
Examination of the process of reform in domestic trade suggests that Vietnamese economic reforms are the result of an essentially political process dating back to the 1970s. Political change can be explained in terms of the interests and objectives of groups in society interacting with the economic context to produce political action. Also important is the changing cognition of different actors about how their objectives could be given expression…
Doi Moi
As in previous years the majority of the funding for the 1996 \nVietnam Update conference has been given by the \nAustralian International Development Assistance Bureau \n(AusAID). With AusAID's assistance, this publication has \nbeen produced from the proceedings of the conference. \nOther financial support has come from the Department of \nPolitical and Social Change and the Division of Pacific \nand Asian History in the Research School of Paci…
Light Within the Asean Gloom
The Vietnamese economy has performed rather well in recent years. While there are a number of conflicting opinions on the state of the economy, with many arguing that there are fundamental economic weaknesses (such as the likely formal bankruptcy of the state commercial banks),2 it is nevertheless striking how the economy has grown rather fast, and how macroeconomic stability has been maintained. This article will focus upon a review of the books…
Vietnam in 2003
2003 in Vietnam saw good economic performance combined with ongoing high levels of corruption and Communist Party concerns over governance issues. Social differentiation continued to climb, with signs of gathering social unrest as “trickle-down” effects fell away
Vietnam in 2004
Vietnam in 2004 saw a combination of rapid economic growth with continued evidence of weak central political authority. The ruling Vietnamese Communist Party, having granted greater freedoms in order to legitimize dissent, refused to abandon its Leninist politics that were hostile toward what appears to be a rapidly emerging “civil society.” The loss of quotas on exports of garments and footwear and slow progress toward joining the World Trade Or…
Vietnamese State Industry and the Political Economy of Commercial Renaissance
Scene-setting and overview of the book The DRV, the development goals of unreformed Vietnamese communism and what went wrong i?1⁄2 the limits of national liberation Vietnamese state industry: policy debates before 1979 Vietnamese neo-Stalinism and its feet of clay i?1⁄2 from reunification to August 1979 The transitional model of the 1980s: a new solution? Just how important was policy? Spontaneous decentralisation, 1979i?1⁄21980 The attempted rec…
Luck, Policy or Something Else Entirely? Vietnam's Economic Performance in 2009 and Prospects for 2010
Vietnam's economic performance in 2009 is seen by the Vietnamese government and representatives of the Western donor communities as good, with the effects of the global financial crisis relatively mild. The paper notes a lack of contestation of these mainstream views and locates them within an assessment of major trends in 2009, and medium-term issues. Particular focus is placed upon the policy implications of rural development and the need for a…
Economics, History, and the Origins of Vietnam's Post-War Economic Success
During the 1990s, skeptical aid donors confronted an example of development “success” in Vietnam. Understanding this requires reflection upon economic conditions in North Vietnam prior to 1975. These conditions created important prerequisites for a successful transition to a market economy, sufficiently guided by local reformists so as not to unduly threaten stability, and sufficiently reflective of realities that it could work
Rethinking the Political Economy of Conservative Transition
The transition ‘from plan to market’ under a politically conservative regime in Vietnam, where the communist party remains in power, can be seen as an example of a process in which evolving endogenous forces drove and resourced institutional change. Two sets of phenomena are analytically important. The first may be understood as the creation and seeking out of economic rents in the ‘neo-classical’ sense of resources available ‘below economic cost…
Responses to the ‘policy science’ problem
Taking as its point of departure the failure of the ‘policy science’ project, the article discusses the declining authority of ‘one size fits all’ policy advice. It relates this to the absence of a robust empirical basis for such positions, as shown by the cross-country regressions literature, and relates it also to changes in a range of disciplines, including natural sciences and mathematics. It discusses the rising tolerance for inconsistency b…
Policy Recommendations as Spurious Predictions
Lao Tzu and Marx together provide the basis of an epistemology based on ignorance—not on knowledge. The failure of an epistemology based on knowledge is shown by the internal inconsistencies afflicting mainstream economics: Economic theory predicts certain empirical phenomena but these fail to reveal themselves. In fact, the strongest research finding in development economics is that there are almost no robust empirical relationships between an i…
Contemporary Vietnam
This article examines contemporary Vietnamese politics and argues that many opportunities remain for political rethinking. It examines linguistic arguments that point to a perpetuation of traditional Communist ideas in two crucial areas—village elections and the treatment of “policy.” It then juxtaposes this formal conservatism with two areas of tension. First, problems exist in addressing important policy questions related to rural development, …
Vietnam in 2011
Tensions in the international arena are linked here to problems in contemporary Vietnam. Eroding domestic political authority is related to the lack of political reconstruction to suit a market economy and an increasingly open society. At the close of 2011, it appears that there is as yet no clear path forward
The Politics of Civil Society Organisation in Cambodia and Vietnam
The paper examines the correct analytical positioning of foreign donors’ aid support for civil society in Cambodia and Vietnam. It is argued that references to the ‘state’ should include political activities (by donors) in order to better understand the effects of the different donors’ strategies in the two countries. By discussing the question of sovereignty, the paper argues that the weakness of civil society in Vietnam is linked to the weaknes…
Vietnam in 2012
The paper reviews political and other trajectories in Vietnam in 2012, concluding that a systemic political crisis continues. Trying to rule over an increasingly open and globalizing society with unreformed Communist political institutions, the Vietnamese Communist Party has seen its institutional authority evaporate, so that it no longer functions as a coherent source of sovereign power
Post-Cold War Vietnam
The paper compares political ideas and acts in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev and in Communist Vietnam. It argues that the Gorbachev group, committed to progressive change, concluded that power granted to them by their position in the Soviet system needed to be eliminated, creating a ‘boot strap’ problem. To secure progressive change they had first to destroy their own power base. By contrast, the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) attempt…
Cambodia – Donor Playground
This paper suggests that we may learn much about mainstream doctrines and practices of governance from watching what happens when they engage with international development issues. Cambodia is an i
Vietnam
The paper examines the nature of the growing Vietnamese economy and its changing structural characteristics and contrasts this with two core elements of official thinking. The first element is the slogan of ‘industrialisation and modernisation’ (IM) and how this sits with the rather fast current growth in the services sectors, given the issues of transitioning through the recently reached ‘middle income status’. The second is that of “a socialist…
Political Authority in Vietnam
In a contribution to the political analysis of contemporary Vietnam – a single-party state often wrongly assumed to be an author of reform and deploying considerable and varied powers – this paper seeks to provide an understanding of the Vietnamese term ‘authority’ ( uy) and its relationship to power. Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan serves as a reference to the notion of authority in Vietnam and is compared to data: what the Vietnamese thought their wor…
Yes, but what about services
Since the early 1990s, the service sector has played an increasing role in economic growth in poor countries. This contradicts mainstream views of industrialisation as the central driver of growth. Yet, mainstream scholars and policy makers have so far failed to accommodate the "anomaly" of servicisation into development doctrine or theory – as keyword searches of the World Bank's World Development Reports and of academic output in EBSCO show. Th…
What Might International Development Assistance Be Able to Tell Us About Contemporary “Policy Government” in Developed Countries
The article examines international development assistance—aid. Donors assert that experts possess predictive knowledge and project belief in such knowledge into organizational form—the Logical Framework Approach. While such beliefs lack predictive power, as aid operates under multiple sovereignty conditions, no single authority determines truth. Donors ease pressure on experts by accepting variation in intervention logics, yet assert the validity…
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