Yoshinori Nishizaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 149267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoshinori Nishizaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoshinori |
| FAMILY NAME | Nishizaki |
| SIGNATURE | NISHIZAKI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-0554-8907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
"Ambiguous" Network Monarchy as Problematic Euphoric Couplet
Frequently cited in the literature on recent Thai politics, Duncan McCargo's influential "network monarchy" concept is nonetheless inadequately developed. As such, it has been questioned and challenged by several scholars in recent years. In his 2021 Pacific Affairs article, McCargo rebuts many of these scholars' arguments and defends his concept. His defence is unpersuasive, however. It falls short of elaborating on the scope, composition, and m…
Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand
Family Ties that Bind: Decentralisation, Local Elites and the Provincial Administrative Organisations in Thailand
Growing rapidly before the early 2000s, literature on provincial Thai politics has dwindled in recent years. This article makes a small attempt to redress this trend by highlighting one distinctive yet understudied emerging electoral dynamics in provincial Thailand. Specifically, drawing mainly on Thai-language primary sources, this paper shows that in the majority of Thailand's provinces, the Provincial Administrative Organisation, an electoral …
Birds of a feather: Anand Panyarachun, elite families and network monarchy in Thailand
This article attempts to illuminate Duncan McCargo's influential yet ambiguous concept of ‘network monarchy’ — the source of political power wielded by Thailand's royalist establishment. Drawing on Thai-language primary sources, especially cremation volumes, I argue, first, that many individuals who have made up various institutional components of the network monarchy come from a constellation of traditional royalist families that have intermarri…
Chapter 9. Banharn in Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Political Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand: The Making of Banharn-Buri
New Wine in an Old Bottle: Female Politicians, Family Rule, and Democratization in Thailand
Thailand has seen a growing number of women elected to Parliament in recent decades. Yet, little research has been done on who these women are and how they affect the quality of democracy. This article is an attempt to fill this lacuna. Drawing on previously untapped Thai-language primary sources, it argues that the majority of female members of Parliament elected since 1975 have contributed to entrenching family-based rule and stunting the growt…
Peasants and the redshirt movement in Thailand: Some Dissenting Voices
The 'redshirt' movement in Thailand is commonly portrayed in media and scholarly accounts as a class-based, pro-Thaksin social movement that draws fervent support from the poor rural-born masses, especially peasants, in the north and northeast. The movement leaders, including Thaksin, have supposedly won these people's support by framing urban-based political elites as ammart (aristocrats) who have stakes in suppressing the needs of phrai (serfs)…
The King and Banharn: Towards an Elaboration of Network Monarchy in Thailand
Duncan McCargo's influential model of ‘network monarchy’ enables us to understand how King Bhumibol Adulyadej has mobilized his nationwide patronage network to shape contemporary Thai politics. This model, however, focuses mainly on the conflicts between reform-minded virtuous leaders (represented by Bhumibol) and unprincipled, self-serving politicians, and pays insufficient empirical attention to the porous boundaries between the two. The author…
Revolution interrupted: Farmers, students, law, and violence in northern Thailand
Political Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand: The Making of Banharn-buri
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.…
Prostitution and Female Leadership in Rural Thailand: The Story of Phayao Province
For all the attention paid to the economic, social, and moral dimensions of prostitution in Thailand, no scholar has thus far conducted an empirical study of the relationship between the vice and political change in the countryside, where most sex workers come from. Using the case of Phayao Province in northern Thailand, I attempt to redress this lacuna. I show how rampant prostitution, the most acute social issue in Phayao, has ushered in the ri…
Suphanburi in the Fast Lane: Roads, Prestige, and Domination in Provincial Thailand
The conventional views of road construction in late developing countries are not very positive. Scholars of provincial Thai politics, in particular, dismiss road-building projects as dirty pork-barrel politics. Using the case of Suphanburi Province, this essay argues that roads can constitute sources of collective prestige and pride. Suphanburi was once a remote province, and Suphanburians spoke pitifully of its backwardness. At present, however,…
Constructing Moral Authority in Rural Thailand: Banharn Silpa-archa's Non-violent War on Drugs
Politicians, like any other human beings, have different faces. These faces can be poles apart. The late Ferdinand Marcos is widely regarded as a corrupt dictator who plundered the Philippine state
The Gargantuan Project and Modernity in Provincial Thailand
Many leaders in Asia have competed to build public goods of superlative size. Focusing on an observation tower in Suphanburi, an agriculture-based rural province of Thailand, this paper shows that a seemingly wasteful and pretentious public project serves as the site where collective pride is forged. The tower, the tallest observation tower in provincial Thailand, has made an otherwise lacklustre and ‘backward’ Suphanburi famous throughout the co…
The Domination of a Fussy Strongman in Provincial Thailand: The Case of Banharn Silpa-archa in Suphanburi
Several scholars portray Thai provincial strongmen as having character traits associated with nakleng – ‘tough guys’ – who are violent and ruthless toward enemies, but generous and compassionate toward supporters. Banharn Silpa-archa, the strongman of Suphanburi province, does not fit the description however. His personality is reflected in the way he meticulously – fussily – monitors all local development projects. This surveillance pushes other…
The Moral Origin of Thailand’s Provincial Strongman: The Case of Banharn Silpa-Archa
Scholars uniformly explain the dominance of Thailand's provincial strongmen with reference to unscrupulous instruments of social control (for example, vote buying). The case of Banharn, the unchallenged strongman of Suphanburi, calls for a reappraisal of this explanation. His current domination has a moral origin: a decade before becoming a politician, he had done much for Suphanburi's development and honour, in contradistinction to the unrespons…
A Brief Survey of Arms Production in Asean
This paper is divided into two parts. The first is mainly concerned with a discussion of some of the main features of arms produc tion among ASEAN countries. It looks at the types of weapons produced, and finds that technology dependence has emerged in the course of accelerated arms production (with the possible exception of Thailand), although the level of import substitution is generally on the rise. It goes on to discuss the export perform anc…
Peasants and the redshirt movement in Thailand: Some Dissenting Voices
The 'redshirt' movement in Thailand is commonly portrayed in media and scholarly accounts as a class-based, pro-Thaksin social movement that draws fervent support from the poor rural-born masses, especially peasants, in the north and northeast. The movement leaders, including Thaksin, have supposedly won these people's support by framing urban-based political elites as ammart (aristocrats) who have stakes in suppressing the needs of phrai (serfs)…
Suphanburi in the Fast Lane: Roads, Prestige, and Domination in Provincial Thailand
The conventional views of road construction in late developing countries are not very positive. Scholars of provincial Thai politics, in particular, dismiss road-building projects as dirty pork-barrel politics. Using the case of Suphanburi Province, this essay argues that roads can constitute sources of collective prestige and pride. Suphanburi was once a remote province, and Suphanburians spoke pitifully of its backwardness. At present, however,…
The Moral Origin of Thailand’s Provincial Strongman: The Case of Banharn Silpa-Archa
Scholars uniformly explain the dominance of Thailand's provincial strongmen with reference to unscrupulous instruments of social control (for example, vote buying). The case of Banharn, the unchallenged strongman of Suphanburi, calls for a reappraisal of this explanation. His current domination has a moral origin: a decade before becoming a politician, he had done much for Suphanburi's development and honour, in contradistinction to the unrespons…
The Domination of a Fussy Strongman in Provincial Thailand: The Case of Banharn Silpa-archa in Suphanburi
Several scholars portray Thai provincial strongmen as having character traits associated with nakleng – ‘tough guys’ – who are violent and ruthless toward enemies, but generous and compassionate toward supporters. Banharn Silpa-archa, the strongman of Suphanburi province, does not fit the description however. His personality is reflected in the way he meticulously – fussily – monitors all local development projects. This surveillance pushes other…
"Ambiguous" Network Monarchy as Problematic Euphoric Couplet
Frequently cited in the literature on recent Thai politics, Duncan McCargo's influential "network monarchy" concept is nonetheless inadequately developed. As such, it has been questioned and challenged by several scholars in recent years. In his 2021 Pacific Affairs article, McCargo rebuts many of these scholars' arguments and defends his concept. His defence is unpersuasive, however. It falls short of elaborating on the scope, composition, and m…
New Wine in an Old Bottle: Female Politicians, Family Rule, and Democratization in Thailand
Thailand has seen a growing number of women elected to Parliament in recent decades. Yet, little research has been done on who these women are and how they affect the quality of democracy. This article is an attempt to fill this lacuna. Drawing on previously untapped Thai-language primary sources, it argues that the majority of female members of Parliament elected since 1975 have contributed to entrenching family-based rule and stunting the growt…
The King and Banharn: Towards an Elaboration of Network Monarchy in Thailand
Duncan McCargo's influential model of ‘network monarchy’ enables us to understand how King Bhumibol Adulyadej has mobilized his nationwide patronage network to shape contemporary Thai politics. This model, however, focuses mainly on the conflicts between reform-minded virtuous leaders (represented by Bhumibol) and unprincipled, self-serving politicians, and pays insufficient empirical attention to the porous boundaries between the two. The author…
Constructing Moral Authority in Rural Thailand: Banharn Silpa-archa's Non-violent War on Drugs
Politicians, like any other human beings, have different faces. These faces can be poles apart. The late Ferdinand Marcos is widely regarded as a corrupt dictator who plundered the Philippine state
Prostitution and Female Leadership in Rural Thailand: The Story of Phayao Province
For all the attention paid to the economic, social, and moral dimensions of prostitution in Thailand, no scholar has thus far conducted an empirical study of the relationship between the vice and political change in the countryside, where most sex workers come from. Using the case of Phayao Province in northern Thailand, I attempt to redress this lacuna. I show how rampant prostitution, the most acute social issue in Phayao, has ushered in the ri…
The Gargantuan Project and Modernity in Provincial Thailand
Many leaders in Asia have competed to build public goods of superlative size. Focusing on an observation tower in Suphanburi, an agriculture-based rural province of Thailand, this paper shows that a seemingly wasteful and pretentious public project serves as the site where collective pride is forged. The tower, the tallest observation tower in provincial Thailand, has made an otherwise lacklustre and ‘backward’ Suphanburi famous throughout the co…
A Brief Survey of Arms Production in Asean
This paper is divided into two parts. The first is mainly concerned with a discussion of some of the main features of arms produc tion among ASEAN countries. It looks at the types of weapons produced, and finds that technology dependence has emerged in the course of accelerated arms production (with the possible exception of Thailand), although the level of import substitution is generally on the rise. It goes on to discuss the export perform anc…
The Moral Origin of Thailand’s Provincial Strongman: The Case of Banharn Silpa-Archa
Scholars uniformly explain the dominance of Thailand's provincial strongmen with reference to unscrupulous instruments of social control (for example, vote buying). The case of Banharn, the unchallenged strongman of Suphanburi, calls for a reappraisal of this explanation. His current domination has a moral origin: a decade before becoming a politician, he had done much for Suphanburi's development and honour, in contradistinction to the unrespons…
The Domination of a Fussy Strongman in Provincial Thailand: The Case of Banharn Silpa-archa in Suphanburi
Several scholars portray Thai provincial strongmen as having character traits associated with nakleng – ‘tough guys’ – who are violent and ruthless toward enemies, but generous and compassionate toward supporters. Banharn Silpa-archa, the strongman of Suphanburi province, does not fit the description however. His personality is reflected in the way he meticulously – fussily – monitors all local development projects. This surveillance pushes other…
Constructing Moral Authority in Rural Thailand: Banharn Silpa-archa's Non-violent War on Drugs
Politicians, like any other human beings, have different faces. These faces can be poles apart. The late Ferdinand Marcos is widely regarded as a corrupt dictator who plundered the Philippine state
The Gargantuan Project and Modernity in Provincial Thailand
Many leaders in Asia have competed to build public goods of superlative size. Focusing on an observation tower in Suphanburi, an agriculture-based rural province of Thailand, this paper shows that a seemingly wasteful and pretentious public project serves as the site where collective pride is forged. The tower, the tallest observation tower in provincial Thailand, has made an otherwise lacklustre and ‘backward’ Suphanburi famous throughout the co…
Suphanburi in the Fast Lane: Roads, Prestige, and Domination in Provincial Thailand
The conventional views of road construction in late developing countries are not very positive. Scholars of provincial Thai politics, in particular, dismiss road-building projects as dirty pork-barrel politics. Using the case of Suphanburi Province, this essay argues that roads can constitute sources of collective prestige and pride. Suphanburi was once a remote province, and Suphanburians spoke pitifully of its backwardness. At present, however,…
Political Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand: The Making of Banharn-buri
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.…
Prostitution and Female Leadership in Rural Thailand: The Story of Phayao Province
For all the attention paid to the economic, social, and moral dimensions of prostitution in Thailand, no scholar has thus far conducted an empirical study of the relationship between the vice and political change in the countryside, where most sex workers come from. Using the case of Phayao Province in northern Thailand, I attempt to redress this lacuna. I show how rampant prostitution, the most acute social issue in Phayao, has ushered in the ri…
The King and Banharn: Towards an Elaboration of Network Monarchy in Thailand
Duncan McCargo's influential model of ‘network monarchy’ enables us to understand how King Bhumibol Adulyadej has mobilized his nationwide patronage network to shape contemporary Thai politics. This model, however, focuses mainly on the conflicts between reform-minded virtuous leaders (represented by Bhumibol) and unprincipled, self-serving politicians, and pays insufficient empirical attention to the porous boundaries between the two. The author…
Revolution interrupted: Farmers, students, law, and violence in northern Thailand
Peasants and the redshirt movement in Thailand: Some Dissenting Voices
The 'redshirt' movement in Thailand is commonly portrayed in media and scholarly accounts as a class-based, pro-Thaksin social movement that draws fervent support from the poor rural-born masses, especially peasants, in the north and northeast. The movement leaders, including Thaksin, have supposedly won these people's support by framing urban-based political elites as ammart (aristocrats) who have stakes in suppressing the needs of phrai (serfs)…
Political Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand: The Making of Banharn-Buri
New Wine in an Old Bottle: Female Politicians, Family Rule, and Democratization in Thailand
Thailand has seen a growing number of women elected to Parliament in recent decades. Yet, little research has been done on who these women are and how they affect the quality of democracy. This article is an attempt to fill this lacuna. Drawing on previously untapped Thai-language primary sources, it argues that the majority of female members of Parliament elected since 1975 have contributed to entrenching family-based rule and stunting the growt…
Chapter 9. Banharn in Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Birds of a feather: Anand Panyarachun, elite families and network monarchy in Thailand
This article attempts to illuminate Duncan McCargo's influential yet ambiguous concept of ‘network monarchy’ — the source of political power wielded by Thailand's royalist establishment. Drawing on Thai-language primary sources, especially cremation volumes, I argue, first, that many individuals who have made up various institutional components of the network monarchy come from a constellation of traditional royalist families that have intermarri…
Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand
Family Ties that Bind: Decentralisation, Local Elites and the Provincial Administrative Organisations in Thailand
Growing rapidly before the early 2000s, literature on provincial Thai politics has dwindled in recent years. This article makes a small attempt to redress this trend by highlighting one distinctive yet understudied emerging electoral dynamics in provincial Thailand. Specifically, drawing mainly on Thai-language primary sources, this paper shows that in the majority of Thailand's provinces, the Provincial Administrative Organisation, an electoral …
"Ambiguous" Network Monarchy as Problematic Euphoric Couplet
Frequently cited in the literature on recent Thai politics, Duncan McCargo's influential "network monarchy" concept is nonetheless inadequately developed. As such, it has been questioned and challenged by several scholars in recent years. In his 2021 Pacific Affairs article, McCargo rebuts many of these scholars' arguments and defends his concept. His defence is unpersuasive, however. It falls short of elaborating on the scope, composition, and m…
Political science (15 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (6 works) · Asian Studies and History (6 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (6 works)