Making Democracy
Subtitle: Leadership, Class, Gender, and Political Participation in Thailand
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780824827816
Subjects: Political structures: democracy; Thailand; Politics / Current Events; Political Process - General; Political Science; Sociology - General; Politics/International Relations; Japan; Politics and culture; General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Democracy; Political participation; Politics and government
Description: "This topical volume explores the importance of culture and the roles played by leadership, class, and gender in the making of Thai democracy. James Ockey describes changing patterns of leadership at all levels of society, from the cabinet to the urban middle class to the countryside, and suggests that such changes are appropriate to democratic government - despite the continuing manipulation of authoritarian patterns. He examines the institutions of democratic government, especially the political parties that link voters to the parliament. Political factions and the provincial notables that lead them are given careful attention." "With its wide-ranging analysis of Thai politics over the last three decades, Making Democracy is an important resource for both students and specialists."--BOOK JACKET.