Negotiating the Socialist State in Vietnam through Local Administrators
The Case of Karaoke Shops
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6086907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Koh (0000-0001-6803-7879, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 279-305 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0217-9520 • E-ISSN: 1793-2858 |
| Publisher | ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1355/sj16-2e |
| PMID | 19195128 |
| OpenAlex | W1971386352 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article examines policy implementation problems that occur when Vietnam's party-state tries to enforce its rules on evils, a short-hand term for social problems such as drugs and prostitution, in karaoke shops. It argues that these micro-level implementation problems manifest the issues of how the party-state does not act as one, and how its inefficient and corrupt parts can turn a supposedly powerful party-state into a weak policy implementation organization. The conceptual implication that anchors the article is the need to adjust how popular discourse usually views the Vietnamese party-state and its relationship with Vietnamese society, which usually equates communist with repressive or authoritarian. This view is certainly inaccurate and incomplete when state-society interactions in many socio-economic arenas of Vietnam are considered, beyond the political arena on which the popular view is usually based on. A more balanced view is possible when the party-state is disaggregated to illustrate how local administrators make a difference to state-society relations in Vietnam
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| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,91 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2019 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |