Southeast Asia

Thailand's Uneasy Passage

Bibliographic Data

ID6288287
AuthorsThitinan Pongsudhirak (corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume23
Issue2
Pages47-61
Publication date2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2012.0027
OpenAlexW1979328977
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited11

In 2011, Thais reelected a party backed by deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Although Thaksin himself was banned from actually appearing on the ballot, he emerged as the big winner when a new electoral vehicle known as the Pheu Thai Party (PTP, or "For Thais") gained a decisive victory with his younger sister Yingluck at its head. As of early 2012, however, no other reformist groups or individuals had appeared on the scene possessing anything like what it will take to reconcile monarchy and democracy in Thailand. All the same, however, it appears that Thailand cannot escape the challenge of reaching a new consensus that will root the monarchy more squarely within the constitution of an emerging democracy, but in a way that reconciles conservative royalists

Ballot · Constitution · Democracy · Monarchy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Sociology · Thais · Victory · Voting · Cambodian History and Society · Demography · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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