Document Type : Research Article

Author

• Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Anh

Lecturer The Institute of Party Building Affairs Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics 135 Nguyen Phong Sac, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam

Abstract

The political system in Vietnam follows the former Soviet Union style, which includes the sub-systems of Party, state and mass organizations. It remains almost unchanged since the 1986. While Vietnam has been achieving impressive socio-economic development results, the political system somehow lag behind the socio-economic development process.

Keywords

• At present
• the political system in Vietnam is relatively heavy
• costly and inefficient with many overlapped and/or duplicated funtions/responsibilities across sub-systems and agencies