Edmund Malesky discusses the Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index on Vietnam Weekly Podcast

Edmund Malesky, professor of political economy and director of the Duke Center for International Development, joined Michael Tatarski, host of The Vietnam Weekly Podcast, for a conversation about the Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), Vietnam's largest, annual, citizen-centric, nationwide policy monitoring tool.

 

In the "Inside Vietnam's Largest Public Opinion Survey" Aug. 4 episode, Malesky, who co-authored the PAPI report, and co-author Paul Schuler discuss the origins of the PAPI and the need to assess public views on policy, the response over time from different levels of government, the index's evolution into an elite public opinion survey, significant trends over the years, and more.

 

 

Malesky was previously a guest on The Vietnam Weekly Podcast for the June 16 episode on the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI), an annual survey evaluating Vietnam’s business environment. In the "Ranking the Competitiveness of Vietnam's Provinces" episode, Malesky who serves as the PCI primary author and lead researcher, spoke about the PCI’s background and the desire to create a tool that provincial officials can use to benchmark against other locations and identify best practices, the surprising official embrace of the index, the genesis of the newer Provincial Green Index (PGI) as a tool for provinces to measure compliance with environmental and energy regulations, and more.

 

 

Malesky is a specialist on Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam. His research lies at the intersection of comparative and international political economy, falling into three major categories: 1) Authoritarian political institutions and their consequences; 2) The political influence of foreign direct investment and multinational corporations; and 3) Political institutions, private business development, and formalization.