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Government of Mistrust

Name: Government of Mistrust
Brand: University of Wisconsin Press
SKU: 9780299295943
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Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam

Szerző: Kenneth Maclean

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Wisconsin Press

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Focusing on the creation and misuse of government documents in Vietnam since the 1920s, The Governme...

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Szerző

Kenneth Maclean

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2013

oldal

240

EAN

9780299295943

ISBN

9780299295943

Enbook ID

06385870

Kiadó

University of Wisconsin Press

Súly

408

Méretek

152 x 229 x 20

Teljes leírás

Focusing on the creation and misuse of government documents in Vietnam since the 1920s, The Government of Mistrust reveals how profoundly the dynamics of bureaucracy have affected Vietnamese efforts to build a socialist society. In examining the flurries of paperwork and directives that moved back and forth between high- and low-level officials, Ken MacLean underscores a paradox: in trying to gather accurate information about the realities of life in rural areas, and thus better govern from Hanoi, the Vietnamese central government employed strategies that actually made the state increasingly illegible to itself. MacLean exposes a falsified world existing largely on paper. As high-level officials attempted to execute centralised planning via decrees, procedures, questionnaires, and audits, low-level officials and peasants used their own strategies to solve local problems. To obtain hoped-for aid from the central government, locals overstated their needs and underreported the resources they actually possessed. Higher-ups attempted to re-establish centralised control and legibility by creating yet more bureaucratic procedures. Amidst the resulting mistrust and ambiguity, many low-level officials were able to engage in strategic action and tactical manoeuvring that have shaped socialism in Vietnam in surprising ways.