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Author MacLean, Ken, author

Title The government of mistrust : illegibility and bureaucratic power in socialist Vietnam / Ken MacLean
Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource
Series New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies
New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies.
Contents Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Terminological Note -- Introduction -- Period I . The Pre-centralization of Documentation: Revolutionary Mobilization before Collectivization -- 1. Call-and-Response Dialogues: Struggling to Convert Mistrust into Trust -- 2. Field Reports: Confusing the Exemplary with the Deviant -- Period II. The Centralization of Documentation: Bureaucratic Professionalism following Collectivization -- Introduction: Conflicting Narratives: The Transition to State Socialism
3. Administrative Templates: Standardizing Vagueness4. Labor Contracts: Muddling Licit Practices with Illicit Ones -- 5. Performance Audits: Identifying Known Unknowns -- Period III. The Para-centralization of Documentation: Socialist Marketization after Decollectivization -- Introduction: Mistaking Fact as Fiction and Fiction as Fact: The Transition out of State Socialism -- 6. Village Conventions: Misportraying Private Interests as Public Ones -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. The State Administrative Structure (2001)
Appendix 2. List of Contracting Experiments by Location, Type, and DateNotes -- References -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Local government -- State supervision -- Vietnam
Regional planning -- Social aspects -- Vietnam
Rural development -- Vietnam
Bureaucracy -- Vietnam
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Bureaucracy
Local government -- State supervision
Regional planning -- Social aspects
Rural conditions
Rural development
SUBJECT Vietnam -- Rural conditions
Subject Vietnam
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780299295936
0299295931
1306192307
9781306192309