Research Catalog

Title

Modern Thai politics : from village to nation / edited by Clark D. Neher.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Pub. Co., ©1976.

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Details

Additional Authors

Neher, Clark D.

Description

viii, 487 pages : ill; 24 cm

Subject

• Politics and government
• Social conditions
• Thailand > Politics and government
• Thailand > Social conditions
• Thailand

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Section I. Political background. Introduction -- The old Siamese conception of the monarchy / Prince Dhani Nivat -- The organization of Thai society in the early Bangkok period, 1782-1873 / Akin Rabibhadana -- Family politics in nineteenth century Thailand / David K. Wyatt -- The causes of the revolution / Thawatt Mokarapong -- Section II. Political culture and environment. Introduction. Merit and power in the Thai social order / Lucien M. Hanks -- The relationship of belief systems to behavior in rural Thai society / Steven Piker -- Loose structure: fact or fancy? Thai society re-examined / Jane Bunnag -- Relationships between personality and social structure in a Siamese peasant community / Herbert Phillips -- Thailand: the politics of passivity / Donald Hindley -- The formation of a social class structure: urbanization, bureaucratization, and social mobility in Thailand / Hans-Dieter Evers -- Section III. Rural political process. Introduction -- Local leadership in rural Thailand / Charles Keyes -- A Thai village headman as a synaptic leader / Michael Moerman -- The northeastern Thai village: a non-participatory democracy / Stephen B. Young -- Will and Awe: illustrations of Thai villager dependency upon officials / Herbert J. Rubin -- Section IV. National political process. Introduction -- Political tradition and political change in Thailand / David A. Wilson -- Corruption in Thailand / James C. Scott -- Constitutional ism and elections in Thailand / Clark D. Neher -- The essential character of the contemporary bureaucracy / William J. Siffin -- The bureaucratic polity as a working system / Fred Riggs -- Section V. The study of Thai politics. Introduction -- American values and research on Thailand / Juree Namsirichai and Vicharat Vichit-Vadakan -- Some premises of American scholarship on Thailand / Herbert P. Phillips -- Cultural differences and Southeast Asian research / Lauriston Sharp.

ISBN

• 0870733281
• 9780870733284

LCCN

76009674

OCLC

• ocm02537377
• 2537377
• SCSB-190616

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library