Vietnamese Public Management in Transition

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.