Democracy and National Identity in Thailand 1st Edition by Michael Kelly Connors 9780415272308 0415272300

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ISBN 10: 0415272300

ISBN 13: 9780415272308

Author: Michael Kelly Connors

This book seeks to illuminate how Thai elites have used democracy as an instrument for order and discipline. Drawing on interviews, numerous Thai language sources, and critical theory, the author reveals a remarkable adaptation of the idea of democracy in the Thai context. Connors shows how elites have drawn on Western political theory to design projects to create modern citizens. He argues that it is possible to see the idea and practice of elite liberal democracy in Thailand, and elsewhere, as a key ideological resource in the project of securing hegemony over undisciplined populations. In this perspective the ideas of civil society, civic virtue, social capital and democracy itself are all part of the weaponry deployed in an effort to create ‘good citizens’, who act as guardians of the elite defined common good.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction Talking democracy

2 Making democracy mean something

3 Before the doctrine From constitutional democracy to Thai-style democracy

4 Developmental democracy Villages, insurgency and security

5 Delayed liberalism, the general will The doctrine entrenched

6 Citizen King Embodying Thainess

7 New times, new constitution

8 Liberalism, civil society and new projects of subjection

9 Rethinking the nation in times of crisis Democracy, civic engagement and community

10 Final comments

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