1st Edition
Military, Monarchy and Repression Assessing Thailand's Authoritarian Turn
Introduction: Understanding Thailand’s Politics
Veerayooth Kanchoochat and Kevin Hewison
1. The 2014 Thai Coup and Some Roots of Authoritarianism
Chris Baker
2. Inequality, Wealth and Thailand’s Politics
Pasuk Phongpaichit
3. The Resilience of Monarchised Military in Thailand
Paul Chambers and Napisa Waitoolkiat
4. Thailand’s Deep State, Royal Power and the Constitutional Court (1997–2015)
Eugénie Mérieau
5. Thailand’s Failed 2014 Election: The Anti-Election Movement, Violence and Democratic Breakdown
Prajak Kongkirati
6. Reign-seeking and the Rise of the Unelected in Thailand
Veerayooth Kanchoochat
7. Rural Transformations and Democracy in Northeast Thailand
Somchai Phatharathananunth
8. Redefining Democratic Discourse in Thailand’s Civil Society
Thorn Pitidol
Biography
Kevin Hewison is Emeritus Professor in Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya. He is the author of more than 200 publications of politics, development and labour issues in Thailand and on Southeast Asia.
Veerayooth Kanchoochat is Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS, Tokyo). He holds an MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge. His main research interests are in comparative economic and political development, with a focus on Thailand and newly industrialising economies in East and Southeast Asia.
