Public Governance

- Overall introduction

- Course requirements

Required Readings:

1. Daron Acemoglu, What makes a country rich? MIT 2009

2. Acemoglu: Chapter 1 (7-45)

- Concept of Institution: Formal vs. Informal

- Public Governance vs. State Management

- The Cores of Public Governance

Required Readings:

1. J Zhuang et al (2010)

2. Trần Văn Tùng (2011) Thể chế với sự thịnh vượng của quốc gia

Optional readings:

1. ADB, The Role of Public Administration in Alleviating Poverty and Improving Governance, 2003

- Requirements of good governance

- Measurement of Public Governance Quality

- Relationship between Public Governance and sustainable development

Required Readings:

1. Fukuyama (2004), Chapter 1

2. Acemoglu, Chapters 2-3 (45-96)

- Overview of Institution Importation

- Conditions for Successful Transplantation of Institution

Required Readings:

1. Fukuyama (2004), Chapter 2

2. Acemoglu, Chapter 6 (152-182), 11-12 (302-368)

Optional Readings:

1. Joern Dosch et al, The Impact of China on Governance Structures in Vietnam, German Development Institute, Discussion Paper 14/2008

2. Liesbet Steer at al, Formal and Informal Institutions in a Transition Economy: The Case of Vietnam, World Development 2010

- Legitimacy of Government

- Overview of representative democracy

- Legislative power

- Functions of people elected bodies

Required Readings:

1. ADB 2003, Chapter 1

Optional readings:

1. Bùi Mẫn Hân, Sự cai trị của ĐCSTQ là mong manh hay bền vững, Tạp chí Thời đại mới, Tháng 7, 2012

- Accountability perspectives

- Perspective of effective and efficient government

- Administration, civil servant and bureaucracy

Required Readings:

1. ADB 2003, Chapters 2-3

2. Dự thảo Nghị định quy định về trách nhiệm giải trình

- Overview of local and regional governments

- Delegation and decentralization

Required Readings:

1. ADB 2003, Chapters 4-5

Optional readings:

1. Nguyễn Cửu Việt, Trương Đắc Linh, Sửa đổi Hiến pháp nhìn từ chiến lược phân cấp quản lý, Tạp chí Khoa học Pháp lý, ĐH Luật TPHCM, số 03/2011, tr. 3-11.

- Budgeting: policy analysis point of view

- Management of enterprises with state capital

- Public procurement

Required Readings:

1. ADB 2003, Chapter 6-9

- Public officials and civil servants: Overview of right and obligations

- Recruitment, assessment, and training

Required Readings:

1. ADB 2003, Chapters 10-12

2. VBPL: Luật Cán bộ-công chức (2009), Luật Viên chức (2011)

- Article: "Cán bộ phường...đông như quân Nguyên".

- Concept and overview of public participation channels in government operation

- Promoting cooperation

- Social defending by Fatherland Front

Required Readings:

1. ADB 2003, Chapters 13-14

2. Oxfam 2012, Tăng cường tiếng nói cộng đồng để lựa chọn đúng đắn.

- Constituency, public elected agency and its monitoring activities

- Effectiveness and legal consequences of public elected agency monitoring

Required Readings:

1. PDN, Chuyên đề về hiệu lực giám sát của cơ quan dân cử

- Civil society notion

- Draft law on association: current situation in Vietnam

- Case study: Vụ án Đoàn Văn Vươn

Required Readings:

1. ADB 2003, Chapter 15

2. Cao Huy Thuần (2004), Xã hội dân sự.

Optional readings:

1. David Baron, Business and its Environment, Stanford University 2010, Introduction (Overview)

2. CAMS 2011: Thay đổi cảm nhận của người dân Việt Nam về Nhà nước và thị trường năm 2011.

- Demand for Information

- Right to access information of the public

- Government obligation toward information access

- Draft law on information access in Vietnam

Required readings:

1. Joseph Stiglitz, Sự minh bạch trong chính phủ, printed in: Ngân hàng thế giới, Quyền được nói: Vai trò của truyền thông đại chúng trong phát triển kinh tế, NXB Văn hóa Thông tin (2006) pages 33-55

2. ADB 2003, Chapter 16

3. Dự thảo Luật tiếp cận thông tin

Group 1: Presentations on grassroot democracy, public and business participation in local policies.

Group 2: Presentations on increasing business participation in government economic regulating policy.

Group 3: Presentations on increasing transparent government, right to access informations of people, freedom of the press and monitoring government by people and civil society.

Group 4: Presentations on measuring public governance performance, policy draft and recommendation to the public sector, performance of the public servants, and policies on preventing and fighting against corruption.