Political Dynamics of Grassroots Democracy in Vietnam [Hardcover]

In Political Dynamics of Grassroots Democracy in Vietnam, Hai Hong Nguyen investigates the correlation between independent variables and grassroots democracy to demonstrate that grassroots democracy has created a mutually empowering mechanism for both the party-state and the peasantry.

Foreword; Carlyle A. Thayer
1. Introduction
2. Grassroots Democracy: History and Context
3. Conditions and Democracy
4. An Analytic Framework
5. The Case of Th?i B?nh
6. The Case of H?ng Y?n
7. The Case of ?? N?ng
8. Case-study Analysis: Explaining Variation
9. Conclusion: Shoots of Hope
Political Dynamics of Grassroots Democracy in Vietnam is an in-depth and carefully constructed account of how grassroots democracy functions in both contemporary Vietnamese politics and community relations. A must read for scholars studying Vietnamese political and economic development and those interested in understanding the contours of authoritarian forms of power in the context of rapid economic liberalisation.'  Melissa Curley and David Martin Jones, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia

'Hai Hong Nguyen's Political Dynamics of Grassroots Democracy in Vietnam is a path-breaking study of Vietnam's attempt to apply its concept of grassroots democracy to local government in response to rural unrest in the late 1990s. Based on field work in Vietnam, it represents a major milestone in the study of politics in Vietnam and will be the foundation for all future studies on political change in Vietnam.'  Carlyle A. Thayer, Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia

'[This book] by the distinguished young scholar Hai Hong Nguyen is among those rare books that brilliantly transforms the way we think abl3œ