Populism in Vietnam today: status-quo and policy recommendation

Abstract

Populism has been on the rise globally since the earliest years of the twenty-first century. Recently, the term populism has appeared with relatively high frequency on a number of news media, notably at a time during the double shock of the 2016 Brexit movement and the success in the US presidential election of Donald Trump. In Vietnam, populism does not have enough grounds to exist in a form of ism in the original sense, but mainly in specific manifestations. Despite the fact that the idea has not yet governed the Vietnamese peoples lives, its influence is still considerable. This is one of the complicated problems that need to be carefully studied. This article focuses on analyzing the status-quo of populism in Vietnam, thus offering some policy recommendations.