ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction

Power, oppositions and democratisation

chapter 2|21 pages

Power in transition

Thailand in the 1990s

chapter 3|16 pages

Old soldiers never die, they are just bypassed

The military, bureaucracy and globalisation

chapter 4|17 pages

The monarchy and democratisation

chapter 5|19 pages

Withering centre, flourishing margins

Buddhism's changing political roles

chapter 6|20 pages

More of the same?

Politics and business, 1987–96

chapter 7|18 pages

Thailand's political parties

Real, authentic and actual

chapter 8|17 pages

Electoral politics

Commercialisation and exclusion

chapter 9|14 pages

Local bureaucrats, power and participation

A study of two village schools in the Northeast

chapter 10|16 pages

Locating working-class power

chapter 11|16 pages

The politics of environment

Opposition and legitimacy

chapter 12|22 pages

Non-governmental development organisations

Empowerment and environment

chapter 13|16 pages

Thailand's media

Whose watchdog?