Duncan Mccargo
Biographic Data
| ID | 124944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Duncan Mccargo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Duncan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccargo |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARGO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4352-5734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 461 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 79 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Hybrid Platformism: Thailand’s Online Political Media Landscape
Thailand’s digital media landscape has been transformed by hybrid platformism, a fragmented and dynamic ecosystem shaped by journalists, influencers, and activists operating across social media platforms. This study explores how hybrid platformism reconfigures journalism, blurs boundaries between reporting and advocacy, and reshapes media power. While digital platforms have enabled dissenting voices, they have also deepened structural vulnerabili…
Siam Stamped? Understanding Thai National Self-Representation through Postage Stamps
Not the Same as Before’? Contested Discourses of Political Change in Thailand's 2023 Elections
The 2023 Thai general election was fought on the question of what it meant to be Thai: the progressives arguably won the argument, but the conservatives seized power anyway. The progressive Move Forward Party became the largest single party in the new parliament but was barred from forming a government. At the final election rally of his conservative United Thai Nation (UTN) Party on 12 May 2023, incumbent prime minister and former 2014 coup lead…
Constructing Cultures of Hyper-Militarism in Thai TV Dramas
Thailand's Movement Party: The Evolution of the Move Forward Party
The existing literature on the relationship between political parties and social movements draws mainly from European cases, and has rarely captured the kinds of relationships that may exist in other parts of the world. This article addresses the gap by shedding light on the dynamics of party–movement relationships in Thailand. We examine the connections between two Thai political parties and a variety of protest movements. Our analysis demonstra…
All About China
Combining international relations and critical geopolitics literature with a public opinion survey in Thailand that delves into some rarely explored and sensitive questions to understand respondents’ political views and attitudes, we examine the extent to which domestic political developments can be understood through a US–China great power lens. Are politically progressive Thais more likely to be pro-US, and more politically conservative Thais l…
Southeast Asia's Toxic Alliances
Political unity is a good thing—except when it is not. This essay argues that recent elections in Malaysia (2022), Thailand (2023), and Indonesia (2024) illustrate a growing trend towards toxic forms of unity. Toxic unity occurs when politicians who are supposed to be at opposite ends of the political spectrum join forces, citing the common good while in fact pursuing opportunistic goals. Features of toxic unity include improbable bedfellows, rep…
The Real Deal: Results versus Outcomes of the 2023 Thai General Election
Thailand's 2023 election outcome did not correspond with the results: the Move Forward Party "won" the polls, but runner-up Pheu Thai ended up forming the government. How could this have happened? This article offers two explanations. First, results and outcomes have typically differed in recent Thai elections: in itself, the substitution of Pheu Thai for Move Forward was nothing unusual. Second, in 2023 an elite pact was in place to ensure that …
Roundtable: Philippine Elections 2022
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Plural Partisans: Thailand's People's Democratic Reform Committee Protesters
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019. Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities. Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Punitive Processes? Judging in Thai Lower Criminal Courts
This article examines how Thai courts of the first instance deal with run-of-the-mill criminal cases. How do judges deal with criminal trials of a rather routine nature, often involving defendants from ethnic minorities and reflecting the particular conditions in the provinces concerned? Drawing on participant observation and interview research conducted mainly in two provinces in different regions of the country, the article examines the challen…
Network Monarchy as Euphoric Couplet
Since the publication of my article "Network monarchy and crises of legitimacy in Thailand" (Pacific Review, 2005), network monarchy has become an influential concept in the analysis of Thailand's politics. Though widely adopted, the argument has also spawned rival or complementary coinings, ranging from "autonomous political networks" (Joseph Harris) to "working towards the monarchy" (Serhat Uenaldi), and the "deep state" (Eugenie Mérieau), as w…
Victor's memory: Sri Lanka's post-war memoryscape in comparative perspective
How are victims of civil wars and conflicts remembered in the context of an illiberal peace? When a violent conflict is ended by the use of overwhelming state force, without benefit of a political process, the victors may seek to control the ways in which the violence is memorialised; while in a war where the insurgents remain in the shadows, public recognition of their losses may be impossible. Using Thailand as a comparison, this study compares…
Southeast Asia's Troubling Elections: Democratic Demolition in Thailand
Thailand's long-awaited March 2019 parliamentary election was supposed to usher in a degree of political normalcy in the wake of the May 2014 military coup. Instead, the promilitary Palang Pracharath Party was able to form a government, despite the fact that parties campaigning on an anti-junta platform won the greater number of parliamentary seats. Junta leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha and his key associates remain in office thanks to the conni…
Roundtable: Thailand’s Amazing 24 March 2019 Elections
The most popular man in Thailand appears out of the bushes on Thammasat University campus, dripping with sweat and with no staff in sight: Future Forward leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit is promptly mobbed by fans clamouring for selfies and autographs. Voters on Bangkok’s Charoenkrung Road look delighted to see a former prime minister out on the campaign trail: eager to show off his fitness, Abhisit Vejjajiva practically runs up some footbrid…
Thailand in 2017
Following the epochal funeral of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in October 2017, Thailand stands at a difficult crossroads. A new constitution was ratified in April, and the military junta is running out of reasons to stick around. Yet Thailand remains deeply polarized politically, while King Vajiralongkorn is untested and lacks popular legitimacy
Thailand in 2016
Events in Thailand during 2016 were overshadowed by the death of long-reigning King Bhumibol Adulyadej on October 13, and the entire nation’s mourning. Despite the popular approval of a new constitution in August 2016, Thailand’s military regime showed no sign of relinquishing power during this time of considerable national anxiety
War of words: Isan redshirt activists and discourses of Thai democracy
Thai grassroots activists known as ‘redshirts’ (broadly aligned with former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra) have been characterised according to their socio-economic profile, but despite pioneering works such as Buchanan (2013), Cohen (2012) and Ünaldi (2014), there is still much to learn about how ordinary redshirts voice their political stances. This article is based on a linguistic approach to discourse analysis and builds on Fairclough’s (…
Ordering Peace: Thailand's 2016 Constitutional Referendum
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 39, Number 1, April 2017
Roundtable: The 2016 Philippine Presidential Election
Thailand in 2014: The Trouble with Magic Swords
Southeast Asian Affairs is the only one of its kind: a comprehensive annual review devoted to the international relations, politics, and economies of the region and its nation-states. The collected volumes of Southeast Asian Affairs have become a compendium documenting the dynamic evolution of regional and national developments in Southeast Asia from the end of the 'second' Vietnam War to the alarms and struggles of today. Over the years, the edi…
Readings on Thai Justice: A Review Essay
How far can judges hope to address Thailand’s political problems? This article reviews six Thai-language books dealing with various aspects of the judiciary, exploring the historical and intellectual origins of the institution. Thirayudh Boonmee’s 2006 call for a judicialisation of politics – his own elaboration of two important royal speeches – builds on judges’ longstanding belief that they are acting “in the name of the King”. But their narrow…
Peopling Thailand's 2015 Draft Constitution
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 37, Number 3, December 2015
Cambodia in 2014
During 2014, Cambodia moved from violent confrontation between government and opposition forces to an uneasy compromise. The turning point came in July, when opposition legislators agreed to take their seats in the National Assembly, which they had boycotted. The long-ruling Cambodian People’s Party worked to polish its tarnished image
Transitional Justice and Its Discontents
The political-transition paradigm has been widely debated in the pages of the Journal of Democracy and elsewhere, but its idealistic younger sibling, the transitional-justice paradigm, has rarely been scrutinized so critically. This article argues that as the International Criminal Court runs out of steam, the heyday of transitional justice—with its clamor for more international tribunals and truth commissions—has passed. Whatever lawyers want us…
Network monarchy and legitimacy crises in Thailand
This article argues that widely used ideas such as bureaucratic polity, constitutional monarchy, transitional democracy and political reform fail to characterize accurately the recent politics of Thailand. Instead, Thai politics are best understood in terms of political networks. The leading network of the period 1973-2001 was centred on the palace, and is here termed 'network monarchy'. Network monarchy involved active interventions in the polit…
Cambodia: Getting Away with Authoritarianism
Cambodia:Getting Away with Authoritarianism? Duncan McCargo (bio) What if a country holds an election but it proves not to matter? Cambodians voted nationwide in July 2003, only to see their polity's three main political parties take almost a year to form a new administration. The long-ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Hun Sen won 47.4 percent of the popular vote but gained 59.3 percent of the seats in the National Assembly …
Informal citizens: Graduated citizenship in Southern Thailand
Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the Southern border region of Thailand, this article explores ways in which Malay Muslims understand their place in Thai society. It argues that a new conception of 'informal citizenship' is needed in order to characterize such relationships between ethnic minorities and the state. The informal Thai citizenship neither sought by, nor granted to, Malay Muslims has parallels with earlier forms of 'graduat…
Buddhism, democracy and identity in Thailand
Buddhism in Thailand has been characterized as a 'revolutionary' force, since rationalist Buddhist teachings offer considerable support for progressive and democratic political ideas. The reality, however, is that Thai Buddhism has been captured by the state, and its latent radicalism neutralized. The symbiotic relationship between the state and sangha has effectively limited Buddhism to the role of legitimating state power, and the universalisti…
Urbanized Villagers in the 2010 Thai Redshirt Protests
This article argues that a more nuanced understanding is needed of the social composition of the redshirt protests in Bangkok from March-May 2010. Based on extensive interviews and survey research, the paper argues that many redshirts were “urbanized villagers” with lower middle class income levels and aspirations
Democracy Under Stress in Thaksin's Thailand
Thailand has often looked like an emerging democracy. While it is true that considerable political instability and numerous military interventions followed the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932, by 1990 there had been no successful military coup since 1977, and Thai political scientist Chai-Anan Samudavanija felt able to write in the inaugural issue of this journal that his country was "gradually moving toward full membership of the new and la…
Southeast Asia's Troubling Elections: Democratic Demolition in Thailand
Thailand's long-awaited March 2019 parliamentary election was supposed to usher in a degree of political normalcy in the wake of the May 2014 military coup. Instead, the promilitary Palang Pracharath Party was able to form a government, despite the fact that parties campaigning on an anti-junta platform won the greater number of parliamentary seats. Junta leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha and his key associates remain in office thanks to the conni…
Diglossia and identity in Northeast Thailand: Linguistic, social, and political hierarchy
The paper explores diglossic relations between Central Thai and phasa isan, a variety officially known as a dialect of Thai, but linguistically close to Lao. Phasa isan is spoken by almost one-third of Thailand's population but its speakers in the Northeast are often stigmatized as uneducated and backward. We conducted field research mainly among university students in Ubon Ratchathani, a northeastern border province, by drawing upon data from su…
Alternative Meanings of Political Reform in Contemporary Thailand
This article argues that constitutionalism is a 'disease' that afflicts Thailand's body politic, reflecting intense contestation among rival elite power-holders. The recent debates concerning political reform in Thailand (which culminated in the promulgation of the 1997 constitution) illustrate this contestation vividly. The vague, positive-sounding term 'political reform' actually means many different things to different people: it is a highly c…
Contesting Isan‐ness: Discourses of politics and identity in Northeast Thailand
This paper discusses the idea of Isan (Northeastern Thai) ethnoregional identity, and its relationship with two major alternative ideas: Thai identity and Lao identity. Drawing on ethnolinguistic research, the paper argues that Isan identity is a problematic political construct, reflecting ambiguous self‐understandings and self‐representations on the part of Northeasterners. Northeasterners are engaged in a negotiation process about their relatio…
Vote-Buying in Thailand's Northeast: The July 1995 General Election
Populism and Reformism in Contemporary Thailand
This paper argues that two main strands of populist thinking emerged in Thailand in the wake of the 1997 economic crisis. One was a kind of resurgent nationalism, which sought to blame the West – particularly international institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF – for Thailand's problems, criticizing globalization and the 'imperialist designs' of the G7 to subordinate Thailand to economic colonialism. A second form of populist sentiment w…
Thai Politics as Reality TV
Early in the morning of August 26, 2008, a large group of stick-wielding, black-shirted masked men forced their way into the studios of Bangkok's NBT television station, briefly detaining a number of staff. Once inside, they flung open the main doors, allowing several hundred more yellow-shirted protestors from the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) inside. Other PAD supporters occupied the grounds of the station. NBT, the channel of the gover…
Transitional Justice and Its Discontents
The political-transition paradigm has been widely debated in the pages of the Journal of Democracy and elsewhere, but its idealistic younger sibling, the transitional-justice paradigm, has rarely been scrutinized so critically. This article argues that as the International Criminal Court runs out of steam, the heyday of transitional justice—with its clamor for more international tribunals and truth commissions—has passed. Whatever lawyers want us…
The Politics of Buddhist identity in Thailand's deep south: The Demise of civil religion
This article sets out to criticise arguments by scholars such as Charles Keyes and Donald Swearer, who have framed their readings of Thai Buddhism through a lens of ‘civic’ or ‘civil’ religion. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the southern border provinces, the paper argues that religious tolerance is declining in Thailand, and that anti-Muslim fears and sentiments are widespread among Buddhists. Some southern Buddhists are now arming themselves…
Competing Notions of Judicialization in Thailand
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Turkey and Thailand: Unlikely Twins
This article compares recent political developments in two seemingly different countries: Turkey and Thailand. The similarities between the trajectories of Turkey and Thailand date back to their similar manner of incorporation into the modern international system in the late nineteenth century. In recent years, the rise of new societal groups based upon urbanized villagers has produced charismatic populist leaders who preach democracy, but practi…
Victor's memory: Sri Lanka's post-war memoryscape in comparative perspective
How are victims of civil wars and conflicts remembered in the context of an illiberal peace? When a violent conflict is ended by the use of overwhelming state force, without benefit of a political process, the victors may seek to control the ways in which the violence is memorialised; while in a war where the insurgents remain in the shadows, public recognition of their losses may be impossible. Using Thailand as a comparison, this study compares…
Ordering Peace: Thailand's 2016 Constitutional Referendum
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 39, Number 1, April 2017
Politics by other means? The virtual trials of the Khmer Rouge tribunal
Journal Article Politics by other means? The virtual trials of the Khmer Rouge tribunal Get access DUNCAN McCARGO DUNCAN McCARGO 1Professor of Southeast Asian Politics at the University of Leeds, where he heads the School of Politics and International Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 87, Issue 3, May 2011, Pages 613–627, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2011.00993.x …
Thailand's Movement Party: The Evolution of the Move Forward Party
The existing literature on the relationship between political parties and social movements draws mainly from European cases, and has rarely captured the kinds of relationships that may exist in other parts of the world. This article addresses the gap by shedding light on the dynamics of party–movement relationships in Thailand. We examine the connections between two Thai political parties and a variety of protest movements. Our analysis demonstra…
Punitive Processes? Judging in Thai Lower Criminal Courts
This article examines how Thai courts of the first instance deal with run-of-the-mill criminal cases. How do judges deal with criminal trials of a rather routine nature, often involving defendants from ethnic minorities and reflecting the particular conditions in the provinces concerned? Drawing on participant observation and interview research conducted mainly in two provinces in different regions of the country, the article examines the challen…
Network Monarchy as Euphoric Couplet
Since the publication of my article "Network monarchy and crises of legitimacy in Thailand" (Pacific Review, 2005), network monarchy has become an influential concept in the analysis of Thailand's politics. Though widely adopted, the argument has also spawned rival or complementary coinings, ranging from "autonomous political networks" (Joseph Harris) to "working towards the monarchy" (Serhat Uenaldi), and the "deep state" (Eugenie Mérieau), as w…
Roundtable: The 2016 Philippine Presidential Election
Branding Dissent: Nitirat, Thailand's Enlightened Jurists
This article examines the political role of a group of academic lawyers based at Thammasat University who have been seeking to reform various aspects of the Thai legal and judicial system. The seven-member group started out by criticising the illegality of the 2006 coup. After the 2010 crackdown against redshirt protestors, the group named itself Nitirat and started to hold seminars, draft legal proposals, and campaign to amend various laws. Niti…
Thailand's Democracy: The Long Vacation
The Three Paths of Major-General Chamlong Srimuang
(1993). The Three Paths of Major-General Chamlong Srimuang. South East Asia Research: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 27-67
Thailand's turn: Profile of a new dragon
From dominoes to dynamos: The transformation of Southeast Asia
Journal Article From dominoes to dynamos: the transformation of Southeast Asia Get access From dominoes to dynamos: the transformation of Southeast Asia. By John Bresnan. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press. 1994. 115pp. Index. Pb.: $17.95. ISBN 0 87609 166 4. Duncun McCargo Duncun McCargo 1University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 1995, P…
The political role of the Japanese media
This article examines the political role of the mass media in contemporary Japan. Journalists, especially newspaper reporters, have long enjoyed privileged access to politicians through a system of kisha (reporters') clubs, a system which allows for a cosy rapport between reporters and their sources, but often works against the public interest. In recent years, however, some television journalists have adopted a more rigorous approach to politica…
Vote-Buying in Thailand's Northeast: The July 1995 General Election
Alternative Meanings of Political Reform in Contemporary Thailand
This article argues that constitutionalism is a 'disease' that afflicts Thailand's body politic, reflecting intense contestation among rival elite power-holders. The recent debates concerning political reform in Thailand (which culminated in the promulgation of the 1997 constitution) illustrate this contestation vividly. The vague, positive-sounding term 'political reform' actually means many different things to different people: it is a highly c…
Killing the Messenger: The 1994 Press Bannings and the Demise of Indonesia's New Order
This article examines the political significance of the Indonesian government's banning of three leading weekly publications ( Tempo, DeTik, and Editor) in 1994. It argues that the bannings illustrated a loss of focus and direction on the part of the aging New Order regime of then-President Suharto and were part of a crude attempt to balance rival interest groups and suppress political dissent. Suharto's unwillingness to allow the press to evolve…
The International Media and the Domestic Political Coverage of the Thai Press
Although the Thai electronic media remain subject to considerable state control, newspapers in Thailand have gained some latitude to report and comment on political developments. The Thai press is one of the freest and most outspoken in Pacific Asia. In particular, the Thai language press frequently engages in antagonistic exchanges with political office-holders, and has often been credited with contributing to major upheavals. Most recently, the…
Reforming the Thai Print Media
Thailand: Crisis or reform
Centrant son analyse sur les developpements economiques et politiques recents, l'A. examine la dynamique socioeconomique et politique de la Thailande, et montre comment la vie publique thailandaise s'inscrit dans un cycle recurrent de crises et de reformes. Proposant notamment une typologie des crises politiques en Thailande, il tente d'identifier les nouvelles forces politiques, sociales et economiques. Il suggere que la societe thailandaise con…
Political economy of tobacco control in Thailand
Thailand has some of the world's strongest anti-tobacco legislation. This paper examines the political economy of tobacco control in Thailand, emphasising the identification of forces which have supported and opposed the passage of strong anti-tobacco measures. It argues that while a powerful tobacco control coalition was created in the late 1980s, the gains won by this coalition are now under threat from systematic attempts by transnational toba…
Populism and Reformism in Contemporary Thailand
This paper argues that two main strands of populist thinking emerged in Thailand in the wake of the 1997 economic crisis. One was a kind of resurgent nationalism, which sought to blame the West – particularly international institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF – for Thailand's problems, criticizing globalization and the 'imperialist designs' of the G7 to subordinate Thailand to economic colonialism. A second form of populist sentiment w…
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Japanese Economy
Security, Development and Political Participation in Thailand: Alternative Currencies of Legitimacy
Introduction In October 1997, faced with huge economic crisis that had brought Thailand to its knees, elected premier Chavalit Yongchaiyudh sought meeting with military chiefs in an apparent bid to stage coup against himself. Chavalit -- himself former army commander -- appears to have hoped that the military would support him in declaring state of emergency. (1) Instead, the military chiefs told him to forget it. Chavalit was ousted by parliamen…
Democracy Under Stress in Thaksin's Thailand
Thailand has often looked like an emerging democracy. While it is true that considerable political instability and numerous military interventions followed the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932, by 1990 there had been no successful military coup since 1977, and Thai political scientist Chai-Anan Samudavanija felt able to write in the inaugural issue of this journal that his country was "gradually moving toward full membership of the new and la…
Media and Politics in Pacific Asia
Media and Politics in Pacific Asia is the first book to provide a detailed account of the political influences exerted by both domestic and international media in Pacific Asia. Duncan McCargo argues that the media are political actors and institutions in their own right, and that as such they can play a variety of political roles, some of which support processes of demographic transition and consolidation, and some which do just the opposite. Dra…
Balancing the Checks: Thailand's Paralyzed Politics Post-1997
Since 1997, following the twin transformations of economic meltdown and comprehensive constitutional changes, practically every area of Thailand's public sphere has undergone significant reordering. New checks and balances have been created, new institutions established, old institutions abolished and merged, and new rules of the electoral game put into place. A major new political party has emerged that currently dominates the parliament, civil …
Introduction: Themes and Debates
Rethinking Vietnam
Contemporary Japan
Buddhism, democracy and identity in Thailand
Buddhism in Thailand has been characterized as a 'revolutionary' force, since rationalist Buddhist teachings offer considerable support for progressive and democratic political ideas. The reality, however, is that Thai Buddhism has been captured by the state, and its latent radicalism neutralized. The symbiotic relationship between the state and sangha has effectively limited Buddhism to the role of legitimating state power, and the universalisti…
Contesting Isan‐ness: Discourses of politics and identity in Northeast Thailand
This paper discusses the idea of Isan (Northeastern Thai) ethnoregional identity, and its relationship with two major alternative ideas: Thai identity and Lao identity. Drawing on ethnolinguistic research, the paper argues that Isan identity is a problematic political construct, reflecting ambiguous self‐understandings and self‐representations on the part of Northeasterners. Northeasterners are engaged in a negotiation process about their relatio…
Cambodia: Getting Away with Authoritarianism
Cambodia:Getting Away with Authoritarianism? Duncan McCargo (bio) What if a country holds an election but it proves not to matter? Cambodians voted nationwide in July 2003, only to see their polity's three main political parties take almost a year to form a new administration. The long-ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Hun Sen won 47.4 percent of the popular vote but gained 59.3 percent of the seats in the National Assembly …
Network monarchy and legitimacy crises in Thailand
This article argues that widely used ideas such as bureaucratic polity, constitutional monarchy, transitional democracy and political reform fail to characterize accurately the recent politics of Thailand. Instead, Thai politics are best understood in terms of political networks. The leading network of the period 1973-2001 was centred on the palace, and is here termed 'network monarchy'. Network monarchy involved active interventions in the polit…
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