Grassroots Democracy and Inequality Reduction in Rural Vietnam

The Case of Thái Bình in 1997 and Now

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6233582
AutoresHai Hong Nguyen (0000-0003-1623-4007, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen22
Número1
Páginas71-92
Fecha de publicación2014-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0218-5377 • E-ISSN: 1750-7812
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02185377.2013.879067
OpenAlexW2073170212
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas30

The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) adopted grassroots democracy as a political tool to reduce inequality which was a causal factor prompting farmer protests in Thái Bình in 1997. At the international level, the nexus between democracy and inequality has attracted extensive scholarly research over the last two decades. By revisiting the case of Thái Bình, on the one hand, the article attempts to assess the impact of grassroots democracy after 15 years on inequality reduction thereat, and on the other, to contribute to the general discourse on the nexus between these two concepts. The article is organized in two major parts: the first being the literature review and theoretical framing, and the second, findings presentation. It concludes that grassroots democracy has contributed to inequality reduction in rural Vietnam, but is far more likely to meet the demand to avoid a challenge for the CPV again due to the inequality that remains

Communism · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Framing (construction · Geography · Grassroots · Inequality · Nexus (standard · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies