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Regime Critics: Democratization Advocates in Vietnam, 1990s-2014

Kerkvliet, Benedict

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Beginning in the mid 1990s, public criticism of the Communist Party government in Vietnam spread to the point that by 2014 it had become a prominent feature of the country's political scene. This article emphasizes critics who want to replace, nonviolently, the present regime with a democratic political system. Drawing primarily on the writings and actions of Vietnamese critics themselves, the analysis shows that they differ over how to displace the current system. Some regime critics think the...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorKerkvliet, Benedict
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T22:36:21Z
dc.identifier.issn1467-2715
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/76720
dc.description.abstractBeginning in the mid 1990s, public criticism of the Communist Party government in Vietnam spread to the point that by 2014 it had become a prominent feature of the country's political scene. This article emphasizes critics who want to replace, nonviolently, the present regime with a democratic political system. Drawing primarily on the writings and actions of Vietnamese critics themselves, the analysis shows that they differ over how to displace the current system. Some regime critics think the Communist Party leadership itself can and should lead the way; others form organizations to openly and directly challenge the regime; still others urge remaking the current system by actively engaging it; and some favor expanding civil society in order to democratize the nation. Underlying the four approaches are different understandings of what democratization entails and how it relates to social and economic development.
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Group
dc.sourceCritical Asian Studies
dc.titleRegime Critics: Democratization Advocates in Vietnam, 1990s-2014
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume47
dc.date.issued2015
local.identifier.absfor160603 - Comparative Government and Politics
local.identifier.ariespublicationU3488905xPUB5530
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationKerkvliet, Benedict, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage359
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage387
local.identifier.doi10.1080/14672715.2015.1057027
dc.date.updated2021-12-02T05:04:35Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84937560815
local.identifier.thomsonID000357325700002
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