Geography 3312A/B Lecture : 03 29 Lecture Notes - Politics in contemporary Thailand.docx
1 Dec 2012
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Red shirts, yellow shirts and the possibility of hope. Thai politics is dominated by the red shirts vs. the yellow shirts (because that"s the colour of the shirts they wear). You can"t understand thailand"s current politics (and the impact on the processes of social and economic transformation) without referring to developments in history. Ended royalist absolutism (what the king says, goes. Established a constitutional monarchy (what canada has the monarch is the figure head, but executive power is vested in the gov"t, not the nobility) As we have seen, these approaches were found within the narrow political elite in thailand the aristocrats, bureaucrats, military leaders and businessmen that led the revolution (these were differences of approach within the elite) Non-elite political forces intellectuals, students and the urban working class were, at this time, comparatively weak, and over 15 years the bureaucracy and the military gained ascendancy, with the support of the king.
