Political change in Thailand : democracy and participation / edited by Kevin Hewison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hewison, Kevin.

Series:

Politics in Asia series.

Politics in Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Thailand.

Democracy.

Thailand--Politics and government.

Thailand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 301 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Introduction : power, oppositions and democratisation / Kevin Hewison

2. Power in transition : Thailand in the 1990s / Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker

3. Old soldiers never die, they are just bypassed : the military, bureaucracy and globalisation / Chai-Anan Samudavanija

4. The monarchy and democratisation / Kevin Hewison

5. Withering centre, flourishing margins : Buddhism's changing political roles / Peter A. Jackson

6. More of the same? : politics and business, 1987-96 / Paul Handley

7. Thailand's political parties : real, authentic and actual / Duncan McCargo

8. Electoral politics : commercialisation and exclusion / Surin Maisrikrod and Duncan McCargo

9. Local bureaucrats, power and participation : a study of two village schools in the Northeast / Bruce Missingham

10. Locating working-class power / Andrew Brown

11. The politics of environment : opposition and legitimacy / Philip Hirsch

12. Non-governmental development organisations : empowerment and environment / Prudhisan Jumbala and Maneerat Mitprasat

13. Thailand's media : whose watchdog? / Thitinan Pongsudhirak

14. The Thai medical profession and political activism / Scott Bamber

15. The changing role of provincial business in the Thai political economy / Parichart Chotiya.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-291) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-68120-8

0-203-07578-1

1-280-35435-6

1-134-68121-6

9780203075784

OCLC:

226376451