Explaining Factional Sorting in China and Vietnam

Trinh, Duy

doi:10.1080/10758216.2020.1739540

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“…While research debates what constitutes a faction within the CC (Nguyen and Nguyen, 2022), there is a consensus that it is characterized by factionalism (Thayer, 1993; Trinh, 2021). The CC deals with the internal power-sharing problem by institutionalizing and standardizing elite promotion and selection so that no specific groups are over-represented, thus becoming too powerful (Nguyen and Nguyen, 2022).…”

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Declining opportunities for speaking out: The impact of Vietnam's new leadership on grassroots collective action

Truong

2022

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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This article examines how Vietnam's 13th Politburo elected in 2021 affects citizens’ willingness to raise their voices about policy issues through extra-institutional channels such as protests, petitions, and social media. I argue that an exceptionally high number of public security figures in the Politburo reflected the concerns of the Communist Party's Central Committee over regime-destabilizing grassroots activism. Using an online survey experiment administered to 1500 Vietnamese citizens, which manipulates the information on the repressive nature of the public security institution and police representatives’ backgrounds, I find that a heavy police representation in the 13th Politburo makes respondents less likely to sign petitions, share their concerns on social media, and take to the streets to voice their discontent with the government. My findings suggest that single-party regimes can reverse democratic development, particularly the participation dimension, through strategic leadership arrangements.

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Declining opportunities for speaking out: The impact of Vietnam's new leadership on grassroots collective action

Truong

2022

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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Enhancing Research on Authoritarian Regimes through Detailed Comparisons of China and Vietnam

Malesky

2021

Problems of Post-Communism

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In exploring the role of factions, personalism, and legislative behavior in the two states, the three contributions in this issue dispense with the simplistic notion of a China or Vietnam "Model" of political economy, but instead explain the politics behind how leaders are chosen and how legislative decisions are made and implemented. As I argue in this essay, the insights of these three papers are important not only for broadening area studies expertise, but also contributing to the burgeoning literature on authoritarian regimes, which has insufficiently accounted for subtle institutional differences and variation in the policy preferences of elite actors.

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The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes

Trinh

2024

Comparative Political Studies

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Existing literature highlights an authoritarian sanction dilemma: Dictators must deter rent-seeking, yet in doing so they risk antagonizing factional allies. Using a new dataset of disciplinary investigations within the Chinese and Vietnamese Communist Party, I show that some dictators navigate this dilemma by tailoring the political protection they provide to their followers. Factional malleability, the extent to which a regime’s factions are formed around mutable personal connections, moderates the choice of protection method. In China, where factions are rigid, factional allies’ defection threat is non-credible. Thus, the dictator offers ex post protection, which is more desirable to him than to his subordinates, by giving delayed, lenient punishments to investigated officials in factionally-connected provinces. In contrast, under Vietnam’s malleable factions, the dictator provides ex ante protection by excluding the same officials from investigations. The findings illuminate how authoritarian regimes with similar formal institutions produce divergent anti-corruption outcomes.

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Explaining Factional Sorting in China and Vietnam

Cited by 4 publications

References 62 publications

Declining opportunities for speaking out: The impact of Vietnam's new leadership on grassroots collective action

Declining opportunities for speaking out: The impact of Vietnam's new leadership on grassroots collective action

Enhancing Research on Authoritarian Regimes through Detailed Comparisons of China and Vietnam

The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes

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