Time as a Policy Resource: Temporal Governance and Administrative Reform in Vietnam, 2024–2026

IF 1.6 3区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2026-09-12 DOI:10.1002/app5.70095

Thanh Hai Do

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Abstract

This article examines how Vietnamese central leadership discourse and reform documents from August 2024 to May 2026 construct time as a scarce policy resource. Drawing on a two-stage documentary corpus—a systematically assembled body of leadership interventions, Party conclusions, government notices, and implementation materials—it traces four moves: diagnosing delay as a political and institutional problem; valuing time as a developmental asset; compressing the 2030 and 2045 horizons into present obligations; and inscribing urgency in reform architecture through streamlining, decentralisation, legal acceleration, reporting rhythms, measurable outputs, and citizen-facing service standards. The article analyses official articulation and representation rather than independently verified administrative outcomes. It shows how this official document set makes time governable by linking waste, opportunity, trust, institutional design, and performance metrics. It contributes to temporal governance scholarship and Vietnam studies by showing how a party-state reform agenda governs through time as well as through institutions within a coherent analytical framework.

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时间作为政策资源：越南时间治理与行政改革，2024-2026

本文考察了从2024年8月到2026年5月的越南中央领导话语和改革文件如何将时间作为一种稀缺的政策资源。利用两阶段的文献语料库——系统地汇集了领导干预、党的结论、政府通知和实施材料——它追溯了四个步骤：将延误诊断为政治和制度问题；重视时间作为一种发展资产；将2030年和2045年的远景压缩为当前的义务；通过精简、权力下放、加速法律、报告节奏、可衡量的产出和面向公民的服务标准，在改革架构上刻下紧迫性。本文分析的是官方的表述和代表性，而不是独立核实的行政结果。它展示了这套官方文件如何通过将浪费、机会、信任、制度设计和绩效指标联系起来，使时间变得可治理。它通过展示党国改革议程如何在一个连贯的分析框架内通过时间和制度进行治理，为时间治理学术和越南研究做出了贡献。

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies AREA STUDIES-

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3.20

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5.30%

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审稿时长

6 weeks

期刊介绍： Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies is the flagship journal of the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. It is a peer-reviewed journal that targets research in policy studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, across a discipline focus that includes economics, political science, governance, development and the environment. Specific themes of recent interest include health and education, aid, migration, inequality, poverty reduction, energy, climate and the environment, food policy, public administration, the role of the private sector in public policy, trade, foreign policy, natural resource management and development policy. Papers on a range of topics that speak to various disciplines, the region and policy makers are encouraged. The goal of the journal is to break down barriers across disciplines, and generate policy impact. Submissions will be reviewed on the basis of content, policy relevance and readability.