Political change in Thailand : democracy and participation
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Political change in Thailand : democracy and participation
（Politics in Asia series）
Routledge, 1997
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- : pbk
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"This book is a project of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia"
Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-291) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides an assessment of approaches to studying Thai politics, the various forces reshaping the forms of political activity and their roles in the fluid contemporary political environment. This volume will be of particular interest to those who require an understanding of the complex and rapidly changing political realities of contemporary Thailand. Political Change in Thailand will be of particular interest to those who require an understanding of the complex and rapidly changing political realities of contemporary Thailand.
Table of Contents
Preface and a note on the text, 1 Introduction: Power, oppositions and democratisation 2 Power in transition: Thailand in the 1990s 3 Old soldiers never die, they are just bypassed: The military, bureaucracy and globalisation 4 The monarchy and democratisation 5 Withering centre, flourishing margins: Buddhism's changing political roles 6 More of the same? Politics and business, 1987-96 7 Thailand's political parties: Real, authentic and actual 8 Electoral politics: Commercialisation and exclusion 9 Local bureaucrats, power and participation: A study of two village schools in the Northeast 10 Locating working-class power 11 The politics of environment: Opposition and legitimacy 12 Non-governmental development organisations: Empowerment and environment 13 Thailand's media: Whose watchdog? 14 The Thai medical profession and political activism 15 The changing role of provincial business in the Thai political economy
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