Vote-buying in Thailand's northeast: The July 1995 general election

Asian Survey

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 376-392

  Callahan, William A ^a   McCargo, Duncan ^b  

^a RANGSIT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELECTIONS; ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL CHANGE; PROVINCIAL POLITICS; VOTE BUYING;

THAILAND, (NORTHEAST);

EID: 0030475686     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2645405     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Sombat Chantornvong, Leuktangwikrit: Panha lae thang ok [Thai elections in crisis: Problems and solutions] (Bangkok: Kopfai Publishing, 1993), pp. 13-16.
2. Interview, 1 July 1995.
3. Thai Rath, 19 June 1995; Siam Post, 26 June 1995.
4. Thai Rath, 19 June 1995; Siam Post, 26 June 1995.
5. James Ockey, "Political Parties, Factions and Corruption in Thailand," Modern Asian Studies, 28:2, pp. 251-77.
6. Sombat, Leuktangwikrit, pp. 111-20; also Pasuk Phongphaichit and Sungsidh Piriyarangsan, Corruption and Democracy in Thailand (Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University, Political Economy Centre, Faculty of Economics, 1994), pp. 51-97.
7. Sombat, Leuktangwikrit, pp. 111-20; also Pasuk Phongphaichit and Sungsidh Piriyarangsan, Corruption and Democracy in Thailand (Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University, Political Economy Centre, Faculty of Economics, 1994), pp. 51-97.
8. Interview with Chaiyan Ratjchagool, Chiang Mai, 8 January 1996.
9. These interviews were conducted by the authors with election candidates, campaign organizers, canvassers, voters, Pollwatch volunteers, and government officials during June 10-11 and June 15-23 in six northeastern provinces. A more detailed account, including comparative research conducted in every region of Thailand during June-July 1995, is forthcoming by William A. Callahan, PollWatch, Elections and Civil Society: A Comparative Study of Thailand and the Philippines.
10. One northeastern MP, Newin Chidchob (Chan Thai-Buriram), used this tactic to distance himself from the canvassers in his district who were caught with 11.4 million baht packaged with his election cards. (Sunday Nation, 17 September 1995, p. B6.)
11. Ammar Siamwalla and Ananya Puchonkul, eds., Rainganchababsombun kanleuktang samachik sapha phuthaenrasadorn, 22 Minakhom 2535 [Full report on the parliamentary election. March 22, 1992 election] (Bangkok: PollWatch, 1992), p. 191.
12. Because of the limited number of "respected citizens" in each village, both PollWatch and the political parties tried to recruit the same local people with higher levels of education and social status, and in some cases Pollwatch volunteers were actually illicitly working as huakhanaen.
13. Interview with Abhinya Ratanamongkolmas, PollWatch section head, 4 July 1995.
14. Pollwatch press release, 5 July 1995; Bangkok Post, 9 July 1995.
15. Pollwatch reported no substantiated complaints against Palang Dharma in the Northeast. Press release, 5 July 1995.