Thailand's Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy by Andrew Walker

Thailand's Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy

Andrew Walker

280 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

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When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country's urban elite dismissed the outcome as just another symptom of rural corruption, a traditional patronage system dominated by local stron...

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