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Beyond Hanoi : local government in Vietnam -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Surveying Local Government and Authority in Contemporary Vietnam -- 2. A Brief History of Local Government in Vietnam -- 3. Village Government in Pre-colonial and Colonial Vietnam -- 4. Caught in the Middle: Local Cadres in Hai Duong Province -- 5. Winter Crop and Spring Festival: the Contestations of Local Government in a Red River delta commune -- 6. Local Politics and Democracy in a Muong Ethnic Community -- 7. Local Government in the Exercise of State Power: the Politics of Land Allocation in Black Thai Villages -- 8. Urban Government: Ward-level Administration in Hanoi -- 9. Facilitators of Rural Transformation and Development: The Role of Agricultural Extension Officers in Two Districts of Long An Province -- 10. Ho Chi Minh City's Post-1975 Political Elite: Continuity and Change in Background and Belief -- 11. Push, Pull, and Reinforcing: The Channels of FDI Influence on Provincial Governance in Vietnam -- Glossary of Vietnamese Term -- Index -- About the Contributors.

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This article presents an overview of local government studies and particularly of recent developments. It looks first of all at the changing social and economic factors which influence the operation of local government. Globalization, political and institutional changes, demographic trends—all these structure the environment of local government. The article then looks at the changes in local government, best understood as a movement towards local governance. Finally, the article raises questions about the kinds of local government that would be the most desirable and most appropriate given the changes that are taking place.

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In an assessment of representative democracy in Australian local government, this paper considers long-run changes in forms of political representation, methods of vote counting, franchise arrangements, numbers of local government bodies and elected representatives, as well as the thorny question of constitutional recognition. This discussion is set against the background of ongoing tensions between the drive for economic efficiency and the maintenance of political legitimacy, along with more deep-seated divisions emerging from the legal relationship between local and state governments and the resultant problems inherent in local government autonomy versus state intervention.

Divided government exists where different political parties control the executive and legislative branches in a political system. This has become a common feature of Taiwan's national and local political landscape. In the literature, scholars tend to disagree with each other concerning whether divided government leads to dysfunctional politics. This study attempts to shed some light on the issue by exploring the effects of divided government at the city/county level on the public's perceptions of their mayor/magistrate's performance in Taiwan. We take advantage of a 2002 survey of the public's evaluations of government performance and examine whether different forms of divided government affect residents' responses. Our findings indicate that residents in cities or counties under divided government express more negative views, although their party identification seems to be an important intervening variable in shaping their opinion.