Population Density, Elites, and the Distribution of Infrastructural Resources in Thailand

Literature on population density and infrastructure has generally used an ecological/economic model to identify the determinants of the distribution of infrastructural resources. While this approach has been fruitful, a political-economic approach suggests the importance of an alternative set of determinants of resource distribution: the needs of elites. This paper operationalizes both political-economic and ecological/economic explanations and compares their efficacy in predicting infrastructural development in the provinces of Thailand. Overall, our data suggest that the distribution of infrastructural resources is primarily a function of two ecological-economic variables—gross provincial product and density, and the political-economic factors of presence of governmental and non-governmental elites in the province

Biology · Development economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic growth · Economics · Function (biology) · Geography · Gross domestic product · Political science · Politics · Population · Population density · Product (mathematics) · Resource (disambiguation) · Resource allocation · Resource distribution · Sociology · Social and Economic Development in India · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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