The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos

IF 1.1 4区社会学 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Communist and Post-Communist Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1525/cpcs.2022.1713051

S. Creak, K. Barney

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Abstract

This article argues the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, or Laos, draws upon three key types of “resources” in consolidating regime durability. Intentionally broad, our conception of resources encompasses not just natural resources managed by the state on behalf of the national community, but also the ideological and institutional resources that underpin the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) program of industrial resourcification and modernization. Our argument focuses on the mutual constitution and coproduction of natural, ideological, and institutional regime resources using a triptychal model to understand their integrative contribution to regime durability in Laos. This approach illuminates an evolving and pragmatic form of “statist market socialism” that contrasts with the common view of Laos as an aspiring if imperfect market-based developing economy. After defining statist market socialism and the regime’s three key resources, the article presents a case study from Laos’ strategic hydropower sector, to demonstrate how the triptych of regime resources combine in practice to support and sustain LPRP rule.

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“资源”在老挝政权持久性中的作用

本文认为，老挝人民民主共和国(Lao People’s Democratic Republic，简称老挝)利用了三种关键类型的“资源”来巩固政权的持久性。我们的资源概念有意拓宽，不仅包括由国家代表国家社会管理的自然资源，还包括支撑老挝人民革命党(LPRP)工业资源化和现代化计划的意识形态和制度资源。我们的论点侧重于自然、意识形态和制度制度资源的相互构成和共同生产，使用三位一体模型来理解它们对老挝政权持久性的综合贡献。这种方法阐明了一种不断发展和务实的“中央集权市场社会主义”形式，这与老挝作为一个有抱负但不完美的市场发展中经济体的普遍观点形成了鲜明对比。在界定了中央集权的市场社会主义和老挝政权的三大关键资源之后，本文以老挝的战略水电部门为例，展示了这三种政权资源如何在实践中结合起来支持和维持老挝共产党的统治。

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期刊介绍： Communist and Post-Communist Studies is an international journal covering all communist and post-communist states and communist movements, including both their domestic policies and their international relations. It is focused on the analysis of historical as well as current developments in the communist and post-communist world, including ideology, economy and society. It also aims to provide comparative foci on a given subject by inviting comments of a comparative character from scholars specializing in the same subject matter but in different countries.