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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aGirling, John L. S.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aThailand :
_bSociety and Politics /
_cJohn L. S. Girling.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©1981
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.) :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tForeword --
_tPreface --
_tNote on Spelling --
_t1. Past and Present --
_t2. Economic Change—Political and Social Implications --
_t3. Course of Events --
_t4. Political Structure --
_t5. Political Performance --
_t6. External Involvement --
_t7. Revolutionary Alternative --
_tSuggested Readings --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn this comprehensive survey of modern Thai politics, John L. S. Girling examines the relationship between Thailand's governing bureaucracy and the society it rules. Led by a small elite of army officials, the military and civilian bureaucracy held sway for four decades, until its leaders were overthrown by a democratic revolution in 1973. The new coalition wrote a liberal constitution, and the king and his advisers appointed a National Assembly, including businessmen, professionals, and representatives from the provinces—groups previously exluded from the governmental process. Student movements, organized workers, and farmers' associations also emerged and were able to exert political pressure on the policy makers. Three years later, however, the right-wing bureaucracy—taking advantage of a perceived Communist threat from activists within Thailand and from developments in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos—was able to establish its control, with the implicit approval of the king, during the coup of 1976.In this book, Girling takes a close look at the political, economic, and social factors that have shaped Thai history since the 1930s. He analyzes the bureaucracy's rise to power, including the social values and traditions behind the Thai acceptance, for so many years, of an elitist society. He examines the economic growth—attributable in large part to the influence of the West—that has brought about major transformations in the conditions and attitudes of the Thai people and in the power and performance of the state.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian.
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700 1 _aKahin, George McT.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738586
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