Contemporary Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Structures, Institutions and Agency by William Case

Author:William Case [Case, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Political Freedom, American Government, General
ISBN: 9780415556415
Google: CVW6PwAACAAJ
Goodreads: 13712687
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-01-15T07:43:22+00:00

Acknowledgements

The author thanks Chris Baker, Bill Case, Kevin Hewison, Kyaw Yin Hlaing and Duncan McCargo for offering useful suggestions on an earlier draft. Research for this article was made possible by an ARC Discovery Grant and support from the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University.

Notes

1 The specific governmental mix in each period cannot be treated in this article. Only the general features are dealt with.

2 In Prem’s first cabinet of 37 members, 25 came from political parties, members coming from Kukrit’s SAP, Chart Thai and the Democrat party (The Nation, 13 March 1980, p. 8).

3 In 1999–2000, nine activists were killed.

4 By including the years 1996–97 here I am suggesting that the Chavalit government pre-figured the Thaksin regime. I have argued elsewhere that in some senses Chavalit’s own ruminations on the need for Thailand to develop a Thai version of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (a party of coalition factions), in part, influenced Thaksin’s own political party conception of one-party government. This is a point that obviously needs further exploration, given the direct capitalist base of the Thaksin regime in contra-distinction to the mixed military, bureaucratic-capitalist, and capitalist base of Chavalit government. Chavalit was in his own way a potential populist leader, his mumbling ideological utterances on the Thai people and his intended redistributive policies indicating a shift in this direction. The point is that elements in the state were already moving towards the need to secure stable rule by one party government – one of Thaksin’s main achievements. The economic crisis changed the terms upon which this project could be advanced.

5 Royal Thai Government, Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situation, B. E. 2548 (2005) Government Gazette Vol. 122, Part 58a, 16 July B. E. 2005.

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