Organizational And Operational Characteristics Of Vietnamese Commune-Level Authorities

Abstract

Local authorities in different countries have their characteristics and are organized with principles consistent with their political institutions, historical development, and national culture. Accordingly, there have been different organizational and operational models of local authorities around the world such as the self-governing model, combination model of deconcentration (French term) and decentralization, dual supervision model, etc. Given the organizational and operational characteristics of Vietnamese local authorities, recommendations are suggested as innovations for improvement of the local authority models, by the political institution, history, and national culture as well as the social development. Secondary data analysis and case study methods were employed in this study for the research on the commune-level authority in the 3- 3-level government system (provincial level, district level, commune level) to generalize the organizational and operational characteristics of Vietnamese local authorities.