Politics in War; The Bases of Political Community in South Vietnam

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xv, [3], 313, [5] pages. Includes Preface, Notes, and Index. Includes chapters on Political Community and Political order in South Vietnam; Government versus Politics: Traditional Political Institutions and the Absence of Political Community in Vietnam; Elections and Political Participation in South Vietnam; Representation as Participation: Bases for Conflict and Accommodation; Government under the Second Republic: Consolidation versus the Creation of Political Power; The Executive versus the Legislature: Political Competition and Institutional Imperatives; Legislative Blocs as Political Participation: Doctrines of Political Organization and Competition in Transition; Creating Public Demands: Patterns of Deputy-Constituency Relations; Constituency Service and the Creation of National Interests; and The Bases of Political Community in South Vietnam. Also contains Diagrams on How a bill becomes a law under the Second Republic; as well as the flow of members in the changing bloc structure of the Lower House. Contains Tables, including on Declared political affiliations of National Assembly deputies, 1956 and 1959; South Vietnam's 1966-67 electoral season; Voting and competition in the 1967 elections; Electoral performance of selected Upper House slates; Profiles of South Vietnam's elected assemblies; A profile of armed forces officers elected in 1967; Political profile of selected National Assembly deputies; Career patterns of Lower House deputies; Composition of bloc alignments in the Constituent Assembly; Upper House blocs and their constituencies; Success of the Blocs in Lower House elections; Selected characteristics of constituency service-oriented Lower House deputies compared with other deputies; Current Political affiliations of deputies by service orientation; and Strategies for young Legislatures versus old regimes. This is Harvard East Asian Studies, 52. Politics in War presents the untold story of how the Vietnamese saw the period of deepest American involvement. Goodman supplies background material on the Thieu government, its motivations, and its response to the people. Dr. Allan E. Goodman is the sixth President of the Institute of International Education, which marked its Centennial in 2019. IIE promotes the exchange of scholars and students, rescues scholars, students, and artists from persecution, displacement, and crises, conducts research on international academic mobility, and administers the Fulbright program sponsored by the United States Department of State, as well as over 200 other corporate, government and privately-sponsored programs. U.S. Senate Resolution 146 passed unanimously in April 2019 commending IIE for its work in all these areas. Dr. Goodman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a founding member of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), and serves on the selection committees for the Rhodes and Schwartzman Scholars and the WISE and Yidan Prizes. He also serves on the Council for Higher Education Accreditation International Quality Group Advisory Council and the Board of Trustees of the Education Above All Foundation. Dr. Goodman has a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard, an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a B.S. from Northwestern University, and is the recipient of honorary degrees from Canadian, European, Japanese, UK, and US universities. He received decorations for his work in promoting educational exchange and scholar rescue from the governments of France, Germany, and Norway; he received the first Gilbert Medal from the Universitas 21 Organisation. Before joining IIE, Dr. Goodman was Executive Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor at Georgetown University. His books on international relations are published by Princeton, Harvard, and Yale University presses. He has served at the Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency.