TY - BOOK AU - Porter,Gareth TI - Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism T2 - Politics and International Relations of Southeast Asia SN - 9781501738906 PY - 2019///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Asian Studies KW - Vietnam KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; 1. The Making of an Authoritarian Regime --; 2. The Socioeconomic Setting --; 3. Political Institutions: Party, State, and Mass Organizations --; 4. Leadership Selection and Policy-making --; 5. Bureaucratic Centralism and Economic Liberalization --; 6. Political Participation and Human Rights --; 7. Vietnamese Foreign Policy: Ideology and Constraints --; Glossary --; Index; restricted access N2 - Here is the first scholarly book-length analysis of Communist Vietnam's political system. Taking advantage of the unprecedented wealth of revealing documentary material published in Vietnam since 1985, Gareth Porter offers new insights into the functioning of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and its management of the Vietnamese economy and society. He examines the evolution of the system from the time the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was founded in 1945 through the 1986-1990 period of economic liberalization and cautious political reform by the successor regime, the SRV UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738906 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501738906 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501738906/original ER -