Viet Nam and the making of market-Leninism

London, Jonathan D.

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“…This shift started in the early 1990s when the country faced massive state retrenchment, as evidenced by education and health policies. By the mid-1990s, up to 80% of total (that is, public and private) health expenditures and half of education expenditures were out-of-pocket -a remarkable inversion of the principles that had governed the provision and payment for health services under state-socialism (London 2009(London , 2011. Still, the economic growth that followed has enabled steady expenditure increases amidst the shifting shares.…”

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“…Market economic institutions and market-based strategies of accumulation in both countries have developed in subordination to Leninist political institutions. This particular combination of political and economic institutions forms the essence of market-Leninism (London 2009(London , 2011. In what follows, I identify characteristic attributes of market-Leninism and explain why we might expect them to exhibit distinctive welfare regimes.…”

Section: The Political Economy Of Market-leninismmentioning

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Welfare Regimes in China and Vietnam

London

2013

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Welfare Regimes in China and Vietnam

London

2013

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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“…But it was hard-hit by a severe currency debacle in 1985 and by the collapse of communist states across Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 1990s. The establishment of a 'market-Leninist regime' starting in 1986 did not diminish the state's control over these market institutions (London 2009). …”

Section: Neoliberalization and Uneven State Formalization In Vietnam mentioning

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“…In Vietnam, the Communist party encompasses the whole of the state and its top-down instructions are carried out through mass organizations structuring civil society, peasants, labor, and industrialists at all scales. With the transition to market socialism, the Communist party retains its centralized power because market institutions remain tightly controlled by Leninist principles (London 2009). In Mexico, transition to democracy shook the PRI's authoritarian and centralized control, but corporatist labor and business bodies have retained significant power.…”

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Uneven state formalization and periurban housing production in Hanoi and Mexico City: Comparative reflections from the global South

2016

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In the early 2000s, Vietnam and Mexico turned to the private sector to respond to increasing housing demand and tame the growth of uncontrolled periurban settlements. Around Hanoi, such arrangements fostered the construction of vertical developments while large subdivisions of single-family houses spread over former lakebeds in the peripheries of Mexico City. A stronger role of the private sector in the planning and provision of housing is often seen as an outcome of crisis-driven and crisis-inducing neoliberal reforms. However, the cases of Vietnam and Mexico suggest that a fuller understanding of housing production strategies currently favored by each state needs to account for important elements of continuity in social, political and economic practices. This continuity is demonstrated through the comparative analysis of three aspects of the restructuring of housing production in Mexico City's and Hanoi's periurban areas: i) the discourses of 'order' used to legitimate heightened private sector involvement; ii) legislative reforms facilitating periurban land appropriation for redevelopment; and iii) the sociospatial outcomes of these recent changes in terms of housing affordability, liveability and quality. We conclude that both city-regions, despite important differences in their institutional and economic systems display enduring state/market/civil society relations associated with processes of "uneven state formalization." This continuity and uneveness, we argue, better explains recent transformations of periurban housing production than an emphasis on the ruptures resulting from neoliberal reforms.

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“…In this essay, I demonstrate that reassertions of the state in Viet Nam's health sector have responded to the different and sometimes contradictory imperatives of market-Leninism (London, 2003(London, , 2009.…”

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Reasserting the state in Viet Nam Health Care and the logics of market-Leninism

London

2008

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The collapse of Viet Nam's state-socialist economic institutions in the late 1980s occasioned an almost complete inversion of the socialist principles that had guided health policy under the Communist Party of Viet Nam since the 1950s. Since the early 1990s, however, the Vietnamese state has reasserted its roles in the health sector. These reassertions have been of two major types. Through redistributive reassertions the state has sought to ensure a basic floor of health services for all Vietnamese and bolster its subjective legitimacy, even as public spending on health has remained conspicuously low. Through its accumulative reassertions, the state has transformed ‘public’ health facilities into sites of economic accumulation, thereby responding to the state's weak extractive capacities and gaining political support from within the public health systems. Overall, the article likens reassertions of the state in Viet Nam's health sector represent a contemporary instance of a Polanyian “double movement,” albeit within the context of a market-Leninist regime.

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Viet Nam and the making of market-Leninism

Cited by 70 publications

References 10 publications

Welfare Regimes in China and Vietnam

Welfare Regimes in China and Vietnam

Uneven state formalization and periurban housing production in Hanoi and Mexico City: Comparative reflections from the global South

Reasserting the state in Viet Nam Health Care and the logics of market-Leninism

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