Democracy and National Identity in Thailand
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A01=Michael Kelly Connors
Anek Laothamatas
Author_Michael Kelly Connors
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Chai Anan Samudavanija
chai-anan
Civic Education
Civil Society
Community Culture School
culture
development
Developmental NGOs
Electoral Commission
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Good Life
Interior Ministry
ISOC
Liberal Civic Education
Local Administration Department
Local Wisdom
National Identity Board
NGO Activist
NGO Movement
people
political
Political Development Theory
politics
Reform Constitution
samudavanija
state
style
Subdistrict Council
Thai Development Research Institute
Thai Liberalism
Thai Political
Thai Political Culture
Thai Style Democracy
theorists
Udon Thani
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- ISBN 9780415272308
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book seeks to illuminate how Thai elites have used democracy as an instrument for order and discipline. Drawing on interviews, numerous Thai language sources, and critical theory, the author reveals a remarkable adaptation of the idea of democracy in the Thai context. Connors shows how elites have drawn on Western political theory to design projects to create modern citizens. He argues that it is possible to see the idea and practice of elite liberal democracy in Thailand, and elsewhere, as a key ideological resource in the project of securing hegemony over undisciplined populations. In this perspective the ideas of civil society, civic virtue, social capital and democracy itself are all part of the weaponry deployed in an effort to create 'good citizens', who act as guardians of the elite defined common good.
Michael Kelly Connors is Lecturer in Politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has written articles for journals such as Democratization, Journal of Contemporary Asia and Thamyris, an International Journal of Feminist Inquiry.
