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ID113978
Title ProperPerformance-based legitimacy
Other Title Informationthe case of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Doi Moi
LanguageENG
AuthorHiep, Le Hong
Publication2012.
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article examines the link between the legitimation process of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and its adoption of the Doi Moi (renovation) policy. It argues that socio-economic performance emerged as the single most important source of legitimacy for the CPV in the mid-1980s as its traditional sources of legitimacy were exhausted and alternative legitimation modes were largely irrelevant or ineffective. The CPV's switch to performance-based legitimacy has had significant implications for Vietnam's domestic politics as well as its foreign policy and has served as an essential foundation for the Party's continued rule. At the same time, however, it has also presented the CPV with serious challenges in maintaining uninterrupted socio-economic development in the context of the country's growing integration with the global economic system which is experiencing instability. It is in this context that nationalism, couched in terms of Vietnam's territorial and maritime boundary claims in the South China Sea, has been revived as an additional source of legitimacy in times of economic difficulties.
`In' analytical NoteContemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 34, No.2; Aug 2012: p.145-172
Journal SourceContemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 34, No.2; Aug 2012: p.145-172
Key WordsVietnam ;  Communist Party of Vietnam ;  Doi Moi ;  Legitimacy