Pobsook Chamchong
Biographic Data
| ID | 6178555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pobsook Chamchong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pobsook |
| FAMILY NAME | Chamchong |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMCHONG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chiang Mai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4630-9209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Co-evolution of learning in the design and practice of behavioural public policy
This study adopts a critical and interpretive lens on policy learning to understand the formulation and practice of behavioural insights in public policy in the Asian context through the case of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), Thailand. Drawing abductively on ThaiHealth’s experience of applying behavioural insights in designing health policy over the past two decades, this study reveals that policy learning goes beyond merely h…
Inclusive planning and collaboration in support of disadvantaged groups
Inclusive planning holds the promise of enhancing collaboration to support disadvantaged groups. Drawing on the example of efforts to implement inclusive planning in building a more robust urban food system in Chiang Mai, Thailand, we explore why improving the well-being of marginalized communities through such planning remains challenging in practice. Although a rights-based initiative was introduced for the most disadvantaged groups, unequal po…
Policy learning in crisis governance
Civil society organizations as policy entrepreneurs
Hope, fear and public policy
With current global issues that destroy people's hope and create fear, public policy should become more emotionally sensitive. We argue that, under the umbrella of critical policy studies, incorporating interpretive policy inquiry into the policy process helps promote emotionally sensitive public policy that can increase hope to cope with fear. Accordingly, we propose a framework for fostering an empathetic policy process. The framework shifts th…
Contesting Forms of Knowledge in Policy Deliberation Lessons from Disaster Coping Policies in Thailand
This article presents the case of policy deliberation on disaster coping strategies in Bangkok, Thailand. It demonstrates the challenges scientists faced when they sought to influence policymaking on flood mitigation. The article demonstrates different forms of knowledge that shaped Bangkok’s flood policy, and explains how lay knowledge promoted by farmers, local communities, and Buddhist monks were successful in persuading policymakers and the w…
Coping with Covid-19 in a non-democratic system
Policy analysis in Thailand during these turbulent times (COVID-19) is based mainly on expert opinion expressed under a highly centralised and non-democratic political system. However, the government’s claim of scientific rationality shows that political reasons are at play behind the scenes. Moreover, this policy domain does not interact well with the social domain as it is missing the social, contextual and experiential constructions of policy …
Public policy in the face of post-truth politics and the role of deliberation
By learning from haze pollution policy in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the policy intervention discussed here is based on blaming rural farmers as a cause of the problem. The main policy instrument, thus, is to prohibit farmers from burning. Scientists point out that this complex problem is related to climate change, however, there is little focus on individual contributions to the problem. People find it more convenient to watch governmental agencies v…
Innovative city index and its application for stimulating inclusive, sustainable and connected innovative city development
How cultural and organizational conditions impact on policy entrepreneurship
Kingdon's framework has limited power to explain policy changes in the Global South. By investigating Thai cases, cultural and organisational conditions are found to play an important role in creating opportunities for policy entrepreneurship and in the successful formation and implementation of inter-local collaboration policy. The strong hierarchical social system prevalent in Thai culture caused the mayors of powerful councils to perceive them…
The practice of deliberative policy analysis in the context of political and cultural challenges
This article draws upon insight from a study of those involved in introducing deliberative policy analysis in Thailand at the city scale and presents lessons for both policy practitioners and scholars. The design of each deliberative forum differed, depending on lessons learned from previous forums and the consensus that emerged as a result of deliberation amongst forum facilitators. The underlying principle of this kind of deliberative design is…
The practice of deliberative policy analysis in the context of political and cultural challenges
This article draws upon insight from a study of those involved in introducing deliberative policy analysis in Thailand at the city scale and presents lessons for both policy practitioners and scholars. The design of each deliberative forum differed, depending on lessons learned from previous forums and the consensus that emerged as a result of deliberation amongst forum facilitators. The underlying principle of this kind of deliberative design is…
How cultural and organizational conditions impact on policy entrepreneurship
Kingdon's framework has limited power to explain policy changes in the Global South. By investigating Thai cases, cultural and organisational conditions are found to play an important role in creating opportunities for policy entrepreneurship and in the successful formation and implementation of inter-local collaboration policy. The strong hierarchical social system prevalent in Thai culture caused the mayors of powerful councils to perceive them…
Hope, fear and public policy
With current global issues that destroy people's hope and create fear, public policy should become more emotionally sensitive. We argue that, under the umbrella of critical policy studies, incorporating interpretive policy inquiry into the policy process helps promote emotionally sensitive public policy that can increase hope to cope with fear. Accordingly, we propose a framework for fostering an empathetic policy process. The framework shifts th…
Innovative city index and its application for stimulating inclusive, sustainable and connected innovative city development
Civil society organizations as policy entrepreneurs
Coping with Covid-19 in a non-democratic system
Policy analysis in Thailand during these turbulent times (COVID-19) is based mainly on expert opinion expressed under a highly centralised and non-democratic political system. However, the government’s claim of scientific rationality shows that political reasons are at play behind the scenes. Moreover, this policy domain does not interact well with the social domain as it is missing the social, contextual and experiential constructions of policy …
Public policy in the face of post-truth politics and the role of deliberation
By learning from haze pollution policy in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the policy intervention discussed here is based on blaming rural farmers as a cause of the problem. The main policy instrument, thus, is to prohibit farmers from burning. Scientists point out that this complex problem is related to climate change, however, there is little focus on individual contributions to the problem. People find it more convenient to watch governmental agencies v…
How cultural and organizational conditions impact on policy entrepreneurship
Kingdon's framework has limited power to explain policy changes in the Global South. By investigating Thai cases, cultural and organisational conditions are found to play an important role in creating opportunities for policy entrepreneurship and in the successful formation and implementation of inter-local collaboration policy. The strong hierarchical social system prevalent in Thai culture caused the mayors of powerful councils to perceive them…
The practice of deliberative policy analysis in the context of political and cultural challenges
This article draws upon insight from a study of those involved in introducing deliberative policy analysis in Thailand at the city scale and presents lessons for both policy practitioners and scholars. The design of each deliberative forum differed, depending on lessons learned from previous forums and the consensus that emerged as a result of deliberation amongst forum facilitators. The underlying principle of this kind of deliberative design is…
Coping with Covid-19 in a non-democratic system
Policy analysis in Thailand during these turbulent times (COVID-19) is based mainly on expert opinion expressed under a highly centralised and non-democratic political system. However, the government’s claim of scientific rationality shows that political reasons are at play behind the scenes. Moreover, this policy domain does not interact well with the social domain as it is missing the social, contextual and experiential constructions of policy …
Public policy in the face of post-truth politics and the role of deliberation
By learning from haze pollution policy in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the policy intervention discussed here is based on blaming rural farmers as a cause of the problem. The main policy instrument, thus, is to prohibit farmers from burning. Scientists point out that this complex problem is related to climate change, however, there is little focus on individual contributions to the problem. People find it more convenient to watch governmental agencies v…
Innovative city index and its application for stimulating inclusive, sustainable and connected innovative city development
Contesting Forms of Knowledge in Policy Deliberation Lessons from Disaster Coping Policies in Thailand
This article presents the case of policy deliberation on disaster coping strategies in Bangkok, Thailand. It demonstrates the challenges scientists faced when they sought to influence policymaking on flood mitigation. The article demonstrates different forms of knowledge that shaped Bangkok’s flood policy, and explains how lay knowledge promoted by farmers, local communities, and Buddhist monks were successful in persuading policymakers and the w…
Hope, fear and public policy
With current global issues that destroy people's hope and create fear, public policy should become more emotionally sensitive. We argue that, under the umbrella of critical policy studies, incorporating interpretive policy inquiry into the policy process helps promote emotionally sensitive public policy that can increase hope to cope with fear. Accordingly, we propose a framework for fostering an empathetic policy process. The framework shifts th…
Policy learning in crisis governance
Civil society organizations as policy entrepreneurs
Inclusive planning and collaboration in support of disadvantaged groups
Inclusive planning holds the promise of enhancing collaboration to support disadvantaged groups. Drawing on the example of efforts to implement inclusive planning in building a more robust urban food system in Chiang Mai, Thailand, we explore why improving the well-being of marginalized communities through such planning remains challenging in practice. Although a rights-based initiative was introduced for the most disadvantaged groups, unequal po…
Co-evolution of learning in the design and practice of behavioural public policy
This study adopts a critical and interpretive lens on policy learning to understand the formulation and practice of behavioural insights in public policy in the Asian context through the case of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), Thailand. Drawing abductively on ThaiHealth’s experience of applying behavioural insights in designing health policy over the past two decades, this study reveals that policy learning goes beyond merely h…
Political science (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 works)