Assessing Thailand’s politics

Prajak

As regular readers know, PPT sometimes runs lists of recently published academic articles about Thailand’s politics. Today, we want to point not to an article, but to a short book, Prajak Kongkiarti of Thammasat University.

Thailand: Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression has been published by Cambridge Elements. It is free online from 26 April 2024 to 10 May 2024.

The summary of the book states:

This Element aims to provide an overview of Thai politics with an up-to-date discussion of the characteristics of political regimes, political economy, and identity and mobilization that are grounded in historical analysis stretching back to the formation of the modern nation state. The thematic topics will focus on a) the chronic instability and ever-changing nature of political regimes resulting in the failure of democratic consolidation, b) the nexus of business and politics sustained by a patrimonial state structure, patronage politics and political corruption, and c) the contestation of identity and the causes and consequences of mass mobilization in the civic space and street politics.