This Element aims to provide an overview of Thai politics with an up-to-date discussion of the characteristics of political regimes, political economy, and identity and mobilization that are grounded in historical analysis stretching back to the formation of the modern nation state. The thematic topics will focus on a) the chronic instability and ever-changing nature of political regimes resulting in the failure of democratic consolidation, b) the nexus of business and politics sustained by a patrimonial state structure, patronage politics and political corruption, and c) the contestation of identity and the causes and consequences of mass mobilization in the civic space and street politics.
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 6 mm
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978-1-009-51769-0 (9781009517690)
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Introduction; 1. Consolidation, contestation, and cooptation: royal-military alliance and its opposition; 2. Economic crisis, national political restructuring, and local power reordering (1997-2006); 3. Political crisis: polarization, inequality, and violence (2006-2014); 4. Struggle for (new) political order (2014-present); 5. Conclusion.
