Constitutional Change In Thailand In The 1990s
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Has Constitutionalism Saved Democracy?
| Author | : Ayako Toyama |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-02-28 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781920850128 |
This book examines the phenomenon of the "judicialization of politics," which has attracted attention as one of the causes of the retreat of Thai democracy, focusing on the May 1992 bloodshed, the political reform movement, and the discussions during the drafting of the 1997 and 2007 constitutions. By carefully examining interviews with those involved and the minutes of the drafting of the constitutions, the author clarified the differences between Thai constitutionalism and Western constitutionalism, and analyzed the causes of the "judicialization of politics" and the "retreat of democracy" in Thailand.While many existing studies on the judicialization of Thai politics are critical of the drafters of the Constitution, this book does not focus solely on criticism, but also examines the reasons why they enacted the Constitution by directly interviewing the drafters and carefully examining the minutes of the Constitutional Assembly, and examines the limits of the King's ability to arbitrate due to the intensification and scale of the mass demonstrations since the 1990s. The book is unique in that it carefully depicts the "sense of crisis" they felt toward the limits of the King's ability to arbitrate due to the intensification and scale of mass demonstrations since the 1990s.
Owners of the Map
| Author | : Claudio Sopranzetti |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0520288505 |
On May 19, 2010, the Royal Thai Army deployed tanks, snipers, and war weapons to disperse the thousands of Red Shirts protesters who had taken over the commercial center of Bangkok to demand democratic elections and an end to inequality. Key to this mobilization were motorcycle taxi drivers, who slowed down, filtered, and severed mobility in the area, claiming a prominent role in national politics and ownership over the city and challenging state hegemony. Four years later, on May 20, 2014, the same army general who directed the dispersal staged a military coup, unopposed by protesters. How could state power have been so fragile and open to challenge in 2010 and yet so seemingly sturdy only four years later? How could protesters who had once fearlessly resisted military attacks now remain silent? Owners of the Map provides answers to these questions—central to contemporary political mobilizations around the globe—through an ethnographic study of motorcycle taxi drivers in Bangkok. Claudio Sopranzetti explores the unresolved tensions in the drivers’ everyday lives, their migration trajectories, consumer desires, and political demands amidst the restructuring of Thai capitalism after the 1997 economic crisis. Reconstructing the entanglements between their everyday mobility and political mobilization, Sopranzetti reveals mobility not just as a strength of contemporary capitalism but also as one of its fragile spots, always prone to disruption by the people who sustain its channels but remain excluded from their benefits. In so doing, Owners of the Map advances an analysis of power that focuses not on the sturdiness of hegemony or the ubiquity of everyday resistance but on its potential fragility as well as the work needed for its maintenance.
Emerging States at Crossroads
| Author | : Keiichi Tsunekawa |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2018-11-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9811328595 |
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate solutions have emerged at home largely as a consequence of the rapid economic development and associated sociopolitical changes. The middle-income trap is a major economic challenge faced by emerging states. This volume regards interest coordination for technological upgrading as crucial to avoid the trap and examines how various emerging states are grappling with this challenge by fostering public-private cooperation, voluntary associations of market players, and/or social networks. Social disparity is another serious problem. It is deeply rooted in history in the emerging states such as South Africa and many Latin American countries. However, income distribution is recently deteriorating even in East Asia that was once praised for its high economic growth with equity. Increasing pressure for political opening is another challenge for emerging states. This volume argues that the economic, social, and political problems are interwoven in the sense that the emerging states need to build political consensus in order to tackle the economic and social difficulties. Democratic institutions have not always been successful in this respect.
Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
| Author | : Donald L. Horowitz |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2013-03-25 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1107027276 |
How did democracy became entrenched in the world's largest Muslim-majority country? After the fall of its authoritarian regime in 1998, Indonesia pursued an unusual course of democratization. It was insider-dominated and gradualist and it involved free elections before a lengthy process of constitutional reform. At the end of the process, Indonesia's amended constitution was essentially a new and thoroughly democratic document. By proceeding as they did, the Indonesians averted the conflict that would have arisen between adherents of the old constitution and proponents of radical, immediate reform. Donald L. Horowitz documents the decisions that gave rise to this distinctive constitutional process. He then traces the effects of the new institutions on Indonesian politics and discusses their shortcomings and their achievements in steering Indonesia away from the dangers of polarization and violence. He also examines the Indonesian story in the context of comparative experience with constitutional design and intergroup conflict.
A Critical Study of Thailand's Higher Education Reforms
| Author | : Rattana Lao |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2015-05-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 131769192X |
This book offers a critical examination of contemporary higher education reforms in Thailand situated in the broader historical, socio-economic and political changes. Through a qualitative case study with three methods of inquiry, this book explores why different 'global education policies' such quasi-privatisation, internationalization, as quality assessment (QA) have resonated in Thailand higher education sector. Grounded in policy borrowing and lending, this book uses the politics, economics and culture of borrowing to analyse major reforms in Thailand for the past one hundred years. It is argued that historical legacy, policy contexts and belief systems of policy elites play pivotal roles in facilitating policy changes or the lack thereof. While historical analysis elucidates that the Thai state has always been an active borrower of western ideas, the perseverance of the 'Thai-ness' discourse has often been used to suggest its so-called independence and idiosyncrasy. This in-depth analysis of the Thai case aims to contribute to the critical studies in Asian education, comparative higher education, policy borrowing and lending and Thai studies. The Culture of Borrowing intensively studies the policy appropriation in the Thai education system by analysing: • Selective Borrowing and the Historical Development of Thai Higher Education • The Asian Economic Crisis as Window of Opportunity: Autonomous University • Internationalization of Teaching: Quantitative and Qualitative Challenges • The Emergence of Quality Policies and their Rationales • The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Quality Policies This book will appeal to researchers in Education, particularly to scholars studying educational policies within the context of tertiary education. It will also interest scholars specialising in Asian and South-east Asian Studies.
Stateness and Democracy in East Asia
| Author | : Aurel Croissant |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2020-05-21 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1108495745 |
Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.
Government and Politics of Thailand
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
These essays--written by five leading social scientists who were active participants in Thailand's recent political events--examine the causes of the political disparity between Thailand's success at remaining an independent nation and its failure to achieve national prosperity and security. Covering the major aspects of Thai political life, this anthology is an indispensable reference tool.
Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age
| Author | : Aim Sinpeng |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2021-03-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0472038486 |
Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age is about why ordinary people in a democratizing state oppose democracy and how they leverage both traditional and social media to do so. Aim Sinpeng focuses on the people behind popular, large-scale antidemocratic movements that helped bring down democracy in 2006 and 2014 in Thailand. The yellow shirts (PAD—People’s Alliance for Democracy) that are the focus of the book are antidemocratic movements grown out of democratic periods in Thailand, but became the catalyst for the country’s democratic breakdown. Why, when, and how supporters of these movements mobilize offline and online to bring down democracy are some of the key questions that Sinpeng answers. While the book primarily uses a qualitative methodological approach, it also uses several quantitative tools to analyze social media data in the later chapters. This is one of few studies in the field of regime transition that focuses on antidemocratic mobilization and takes the role of social media seriously.
