Vietnamese Public Management in Transition [Hardcover]

Hai B. Pho (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 24, 1989 | ISBN-10: 081917517X | ISBN-13: 978-0819175175

This book discusses in detail the failure of most administrative reforms in South Vietnam and clarifies the intimate interconnection between public management and the socioeconomic and political forces which dominate the societal environment. It goes beyond administrative rules, organizational charts and management structures. It examines Vietnam as a transitional society and studies its major dysfunctional characteristics, namely, the heterogeneity of its political culture, the selectivism of its social system, and the formalism of its traditional authority. Contents: Public Management and Transitional Societies; Public Management in Transition; Colonial Management; Vietnamese Politics and Society in the Fifties; Administrative Impact on Vietnamese Political Processes; Vietnamese Bureaucracy and Its Dominant Characteristics; and Vietnamese Public Management in Transition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Perhaps the most valuable sections are those drawing on reports and documents written after the fall of Diem....>>>> (Pacific Affairs )

Pho has produced a study of value to researchers and classroom instructors.>>>> (John H. Esterline Pacific Affairs )

Solit bilingual political science study of the 'ancien' regime. (Indochina Chronology )

...clarifies the intimate connection between public management and the socioeconomic and political forces which dominate the Vietnamese society.>>>> (Abstracts Of Development Studies )

...clarifies the intimate connection between public management and the socioeconomic and political forces which dominate the Vietnamese society. (Abstracts Of Development Studies )

Perhaps the most valuable sections are those drawing on reports and documents written after the fall of Diem.... (Pacific Affairs )

Pho has produced a study of value to researchers and classroom instructors. (John H. Esterline Pacific Affairs )

About the Author

Hai B. Pho is Professor of Political Science at the University of Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 210 pages
• Publisher: University Press Of America (December 24, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081917517X
• ISBN-13: 978-0819175175
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,429,899 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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