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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 658–660.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Daniel H. Unger The Thaksinasation of Thailand . By Duncan McCargo and Ukrist Pathmanand . Copenhagen : Nordic Institute of Asian Studeis , 2005 . 277 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $23.00 (paper). Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand . By Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 7–19.
Published: 01 February 2009
... the PAD's tactics of surrounding police headquarters and Parliament. Popular arguments that the PAD versus pro-Thaksin clashes represented a struggle between the urban middle classes and the rural masses were far short of the mark: Thailand contains much urban in the rural, and even more rural in the urban...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 624–626.
Published: 01 August 2022
... for it to resolve political divisions associated with Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, completely failed, making rulings that were “inept,” “inflammatory,” and “unconscionable” (p. x). McCargo is director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and professor of political science at the University of Copenhagen, and he...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 656–658.
Published: 01 August 2006
... University of Massachusetts Amherst The Thaksinasation of Thailand. By DUNCAN MCCARGO and UKRIST PATHMANAND. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2005. 277 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $23.00 (paper). Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand. By PASUK PHONGPAICHIT and CHRIS BAKER. Chiang Mai, Thailand...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 660–662.
Published: 01 August 2006
... nomic war . . . the poor are like wounded soldiers [PB, p. 103] in need of state succor to enable them to support the national project). McCargo and Ukrist are more prone to interpret Thaksin s political and policy choices in terms of his narrow economic and political self-interests. They also are more...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 299–316.
Published: 01 May 2016
... for the Thai People's Committee for Absolute Democracy with the King as Head of State—occupied key street intersections and government offices in Bangkok. The conservative mobilization had demanded the deposition of elected Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and the complete dismissal of “the Thaksin system...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 489–491.
Published: 01 May 2019
... as that of “freedom.” Sopranzetti weaves this seeming contradiction into the history of informal labor practices and calls into question too-neat categorizations (including my own) of post-Thaksin Thailand as “neoliberal” or “precarious.” How can we talk of precarity, Sopranzetti challenges us, when safety nets...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 875–887.
Published: 01 November 2015
... (“Thai-style democracy”) in the late 1950s, which has reemerged in some anti-electoral “yellow” discourses since the political turmoil that followed the toppling of Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006 and the reimposition of military rule (Ferrara 2015 ; Hewison and Kengkij 2010 ; Thak 2007 ). Besides...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 516–518.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to redeploy or expand ISOC—it was taken for granted by most leaders in the post-Cold War period that the military had important and natural civic responsibilities. Thus, when the reform government of Thaksin Shinawatra decided to try to repress methamphetamine trafficking, it allowed ISOC to expand and take...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 266–268.
Published: 01 February 2020
..., particularly during the recent Thai political crisis. In sum, while Washington preferred an interventionist policy toward Bangkok, Beijing was more pragmatic and adopted a strict noninterference principle with regard to the Thai domestic situation. Following the 2016 coup, former Prime Minister Thaksin...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 787–789.
Published: 01 August 2015
... Thaksin's Downfall (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014). According to McCargo, the heart of the southern violence is about “contrasting views of identity and citizenship” (p. 113). It is in this way that he approaches chapters 6, “Contested Citizenship,” and 7, “Autonomous Futures...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 802–804.
Published: 01 August 2005
... and Chawalit governments, these were not honored by the Chuan and Thaksin governments. Worse yet, the economic crisis of 1997 shifted attention from local unrest to national and international economic issues that dwarfed the complaints of the villagers. Second, the new Thai Rak Thai party paid only lip service...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 800–802.
Published: 01 August 2005
... governments, these were not honored by the Chuan and Thaksin governments. Worse yet, the economic crisis of 1997 shifted attention from local unrest to national and international economic issues that dwarfed the complaints of the villagers. Second, the new Thai Rak Thai party paid only lip service...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 527–529.
Published: 01 May 2005
... of governments which negotiated with the assembly precluded implementation of one set of agreements. Although concessions and promises were given by the Banharn and Chawalit governments, these were not honored by the Chuan and Thaksin governments. Worse yet, the economic crisis of 1997 shifted attention from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 525–527.
Published: 01 May 2005
... and Chawalit governments, these were not honored by the Chuan and Thaksin governments. Worse yet, the economic crisis of 1997 shifted attention from local unrest to national and international economic issues that dwarfed the complaints of the villagers. Second, the new Thai Rak Thai party paid only lip service...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 248–253.
Published: 01 February 2022
... be the individuals spearheading the move for universal health care, which would culminate in the 30-baht program under Thaksin. In the 1970s, they sought to raise awareness about the plight of the rural poor by forming the Rural Doctors Society and urging doctors to work in villages in the north and northeast...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 375–403.
Published: 01 May 2018
... to ensure a transfer of power from generation to generation. One unexpected impetus for the growing number of female MPs has come from outside their families: a series of politicized Constitutional Court rulings issued after the 2006 coup. The first ruling, issued in 2007, dissolved Thaksin's Thai Rak...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 1032–1036.
Published: 01 August 2009
... be. Moreover, rather than laud the market, Lewis reveals an apparent preference for state-directed IT and telecoms development—nor does he overplay the democratizing potential of media. Indeed, Lewis usefully situates Thaksin's forging of a new, less democratic “media order” within a broader reordering of Thai...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 423–432.
Published: 01 May 2013
... a long knife to slit the throat of a sixty-four-year-old Buddhist monk, killing him. The monk had just returned from his early morning round of tham bun (alms-collecting extending merit to Buddhist families). Although martial law was declared by then Prime Minister Thaksin in January 2004, sporadic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 533–534.
Published: 01 May 2007
... and aspects of democracy that exceed the single action of voting in an election. Examining the meteoric rise of Thaksin Shinawatra and the Thai Rak Thai party in 2001, Callahan illustrates the problems that emerge when politics are used for personal gain. Taken together, these two case studies stand...
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