Money And Power In Provincial Thailand

Author : Ruth McVey
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0824822730

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Money and Power in Provincial Thailand by Ruth McVey Pdf

Most studies of Southeast Asian economic change focus on the phenomenal growth experienced by a few large cities, such as Jakarta, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore. Big business has been viewed as the economic engine fueling the region's growth and prosperity. Studies of the rural areas have concerned themselves with the social and environmental impact of metropolitan growth--villages emptied by migration to the big cities, cultures crushed by tourist development, and agribusiness and lush landscapes destroyed by the devastation of natural resources. The literature reveals that few analysts have examined the middle distance between metropolis and countryside. The contributors to this book have addressed the issue by concentrating on the intermediate level of economic, political, and social life--the world of Thailand's provincial cities and market towns. In the past decade the rise of frequently violent competition for business and political leadership in the Thai provinces, and the growing importance of provincial support for national powerholders, has drawn attention to the way in which these town and village centers are being transformed by capitalist development. This volume brings together some of the research inspired by this, drawing on a variety of disciplinary approaches, national backgrounds, and sites of study. Contributors: Daniel Arghiros, Chris Baker, Sombat Chantornvong, Kevin Hewison, Jim LoGerfo, Ruth McVey, Michael J. Montesano, James Ockey, Pasuk Phongpaichit, Maniemai Thongyou, Yoko Ueda.

Author : Ruth Thomas McVey
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 8787062674

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Money and Power in Provincial Thailand by Ruth Thomas McVey Pdf

During the 1990s, the Thai provinces saw the rise of a frequently violent competition for business and political leadership. This examination of economic change focuses on this middle ground between metropolis and countryside, an arena being transformed by capitalist development.

Author : Pasuk Phongpaichit,Chris Baker
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814722001

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Unequal Thailand by Pasuk Phongpaichit,Chris Baker Pdf

Extreme inequalities in income,wealth and power lie behind Thailand’s political turmoil. What are the sources of this inequality? Why does it persist, or even increase when the economy grows? How can it be addressed? The contributors to this important study—Thai scholars, reformers and civil servants—shed light on the many dimensions of inequality in Thailand, looking beyond simple income measures to consider land ownership, education, finance, business structures and politics. The contributors propose a series of reforms in taxation, spending and institutional reform that can address growing inequality. Inequality is among the biggest threats to social stability in Southeast Asia, and this close study of a key Southeast Asian country will be relevant to regional policy-makers, economists and business decision-makers, as well as students of oligarchy and inequality more generally.

Author : Linda Y C Lim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813225251

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Business, Government and Labor by Linda Y C Lim Pdf

Business, Government and Labor in the Economic Development of Singapore and Southeast Asia analyzes the inter-linked and evolving roles of private sector business, government public policy, and labor markets in the economic development of Singapore and its Southeast Asian neighborhood. It does this through 16 essays written by Prof. Linda Y C Lim, an early and long-established scholar of these subjects, and published over a 35-year period. For Singapore, often considered the world's most successful economy, the essays highlight the determining role of government's industrial and social policy through to the present day, when the growth model of the past faces many external market and domestic resource constraints. In the rest of Southeast Asia, in contrast, the essays explore how private sector business, dominated by the locally-domiciled ethnic Chinese minority, thrived and drove economic growth in underdeveloped markets with imperfect institutions, and consider if and how this might change with China's increasing presence in the regional economy. A final set of essays analyzes the forces underlying women's employment, from labor-intensive Southeast Asian export factories in the 1980s to Singapore's foreign-labor-dependent economy and its current productivity challenges. Taken together, the essays show how government, business and labor interact in the process of economic development.

Author : Andrew Walker
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299288235

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Thailand’s Political Peasants by Andrew Walker Pdf

When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country’s urban elite dismissed the outcome as just another symptom of rural corruption, a traditional patronage system dominated by local strongmen pressuring their neighbors through political bullying and vote-buying. In Thailand’s Political Peasants, however, Andrew Walker argues that the emergence of an entirely new socioeconomic dynamic has dramatically changed the relations of Thai peasants with the state, making them a political force to be reckoned with. Whereas their ancestors focused on subsistence, this generation of middle-income peasants seeks productive relationships with sources of state power, produces cash crops, and derives additional income through non-agricultural work. In the increasingly decentralized, disaggregated country, rural villagers and farmers have themselves become entrepreneurs and agents of the state at the local level, while the state has changed from an extractor of taxes to a supplier of subsidies and a patron of development projects. Thailand’s Political Peasants provides an original, provocative analysis that encourages an ethnographic rethinking of rural politics in rapidly developing countries. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Ban Tiam, a rural village in northern Thailand, Walker shows how analyses of peasant politics that focus primarily on rebellion, resistance, and evasion are becoming less useful for understanding emergent forms of political society.

Author : Wolfgang Sachsenroder
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813230750

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Power Broking In The Shade: Party Finances And Money Politics In Southeast Asia by Wolfgang Sachsenroder Pdf

'The book offers a broad survey of political parties’ financing strategies in Southeast Asia.'Contemporary Southeast AsiaPolitical activities, the running of party organisations, branches and headquarters, and especially election campaigns, are becoming increasingly costly, and no party can survive without money. Political power provides access to funding from public and private sources. Political parties have become more and more like businesses, including the temptation to maximise the income and the war chests, thus opening the doors for vested interests and influence peddling. As a result, money politics is pervasive, and the public is becoming increasingly critical of it. Trust in political parties, politicians, governments, and key state institutions has fallen to unprecedented levels. In most countries in the region general and political corruption, graft, and influence peddling are all too visible for the voters, while good governance remains an ideal too often out of reach.This book, Power Broking in the Shade: Party Finances and Money Politics in Southeast Asia, provides an overview of the strategies for financial survival of the parties in the region and the importance of stable cash flows for their political success. The book fills the void of a comparative approach towards party financing that covers the whole of ASEAN and offers accessible facts and understandable analysis for anyone interested in the politics of Southeast Asia.

Author : Daniel Arghiros
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136861673

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Democracy, Development and Decentralization in Provincial Thailand by Daniel Arghiros Pdf

This definitive study of electoral politics and democratic decentralization in provincial Thailand investigates how democracy is unfolding in the context of emergent capitalism, exploring the relationships between the politics of the locality, the province and the nation from 1950.

Author : Atena Ştefania Feraru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351015066

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Weak States, Vulnerable Governments, and Regional Cooperation by Atena Ştefania Feraru Pdf

War, famine, poverty, organized crime, environmental catastrophes, refugees, epidemics and pandemics, modern slavery – all these affect people in the non-Western world to an increasingly disproportionate extent. It is also where wealthy governments wield economic leverage and military force to renegotiate existing norms of international relations. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to overestimate the importance and urgency of comprehending the mechanisms and motivations driving these phenomena. This book is the outcome of a decade-long effort to advance both theoretical and empirical understanding of what motivates non-Western governments’ decisions to cooperate/not cooperate regionally. It starts by acknowledging the Western-centrism of prevailing international relations theories, abandoning deeply entrenched assumptions regarding the nature and roles of states, and redefining state weakness. The inquiry continues by elaborating this new concept and applying it to Southeast Asian polities while positing that it creates governments vulnerable to internal and external threats, in line with Joel S. Migdal’s well-known findings on the topic. A set of regional cooperation strategies is then inferred, based on the survival needs of insecure governing elites and its empirical validity is tested against the experience of regional organizations in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The second part of the book provides an in-depth examination of how Southeast Asian governments’ shared security needs and interests shaped the emergence of the identified regional cooperation pattern and its evolution over 50 years of cooperation within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Overall, this book is a call to international relations scholars to do our part in understanding non-Western experiences and making a substantive contribution to addressing humanity’s most intractable security threats.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Chinese
ISBN : UIUC:30112122305615

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Journal of Chinese Overseas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Siripan Nogsuan Sawasdee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political parties
ISBN : UCSD:31822037137338

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Thai Political Parties in the Age of Reform by Siripan Nogsuan Sawasdee Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Southeast Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015078233288

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South East Asia Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Napisa Waitoolkiat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Thailand
ISBN : UCSD:31822035683317

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Information Costs and Voting in Thailand by Napisa Waitoolkiat Pdf

Author : Erik Martinez Kuhonta,Dan Slater,Tuong Vu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210541673

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Southeast Asia in Political Science by Erik Martinez Kuhonta,Dan Slater,Tuong Vu Pdf

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of Southeast Asian political studies through a dialogue involving theoretical analysis, area studies, and qualitative methodology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UOM:39015064241147

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Eyes on Thai Democracy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1926 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015079755628

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf