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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 medium had really become the message. Who are the PAD? 2 What do they stand for? And whom do they represent? These are not easy questions to answer. The movement first emerged early in 2006, to campaign for the ousting of the then–prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. An early leader of the anti...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 624–626.
Published: 01 August 2022
... cherry-picks three minor cases to argue that anti-Thaksin judicial sentiment evaporated during 2008–13 (p. 177). He partially blames defense attorneys for politically biased judgments delivered against their clients by ultra-royalist judges (p. 169). Nevertheless, the book offers crucial details...
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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
... is indispensable as an ethnography of mobility and infrastructure, but this is not entirely true. It is at the same time as this an indispensable work on migrant labor, the Thaksin era and its aftereffects, and even the interplay between masculinity and migrant work. The research done here on Thai economic...
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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
... 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 charge of this effort, a process of “mission creep” that went further...
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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
... the national infrastructure has hindered reconciliation attempts. McCargo provides a detailed overview of the National Reconciliation Committee (NRC), which Prime Minister Thaksin designed as a concession to his critics and which was meant to “understand, access, and develop” the south (p. 69). Although...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 375–403.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Thaksin, exemplifies this pattern, but numerous other female politicians fall into the same category. I do not argue that all these women are “bad” politicians unfit to be in power. Judging from the frequency with which they have participated in parliamentary debates and the quality of issues...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 248–253.
Published: 01 February 2022
... by no means in the mainstream of the medical profession and as debate heated up in parliament over the universal health care bill, conservative doctors sought to defeat the bill. However, the combination of ranked positions in the bureaucracy, support from Thaksin and the Thai Rak Thai Party, as well...
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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 (2009) 68 (3): 1032–1036.
Published: 01 August 2009
.... Indeed, Lewis usefully situates Thaksin's forging of a new, less democratic “media order” within a broader reordering of Thai society after his victory in 2001, suggesting the reverse causal pattern. Even here, though, it is not clear whether private capital, Thaksin, or the army bears primary...
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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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