Public Policy and the Idea of the Vietnamese State
The Cultural Political Economy of Domestic Water Supply
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12349382 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadine Reis (0000-0002-6818-7946, University of Bonn, corresponding author), Peter P Mollinga (0000-0001-9537-6331, Universidad de Londres) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 628-648 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10357823.2015.1082975 |
| OpenAlex | W2190577879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
Using Rural Water Supply (RWS) policy practices as a case study, this article shows that the disjunction between implementation as formally conceived and informally practised is not a question of ineffective policy cycle dynamics, but rather an inherent feature of Vietnam’s Cultural Political Economy. Drawing on critical realist approaches to social and state theory, we argue that formal and informal RWS policy practices, as a set of two interconnected spheres, serve as key, separate but connected, mechanisms for reproducing the distribution of material resources (primarily through the informal sphere) and the hegemony of ideas (primarily through the formal sphere) in Vietnamese society. We conclude that the formal, administrative practices of RWS policy are primarily to be understood in their function of reproducing the idea of the state and state legitimacy. RWS administrative practices function to sustain the core social and political order in Vietnam as institutionalised in “the state”, rather than being primarily oriented to improving rural water supply. The findings raise questions for donor-supported programs that focus on formal administrative institutions and practices for improving the performance of the water sector
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Lost Modernities
China and Vietnam
Vietnam
National Unification and Economic Development in Vietnam
Southeast Asia and the Civil Society Gaze
Realist Social Theory
State in Society
Political Legitimacy of Vietnam's One PartyState
Political Legitimacy in Vietnam
Privatisation as State Advance
Viet Nam and the making of market-Leninism
Power and Rationality
Cultural political economy
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State (1977)
An Approach for Analysing State-Society Relations in Vietnam
An Approach for Analysing State-Society Relations in Vietnam
Developmentalism with Vietnamese Characteristics
Globalisation and the state revisited
Creating Political Legitimacy
Development and Democracy
The Limits of the State
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |