Democracy and the Thai Middle Class: Globalization, modernization, and constitutional change

Asian Survey

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 253-279

  Englehart, Neil A ^a  

^a LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM; DEMOCRACY; GLOBALIZATION; MODERNIZATION;

THAILAND;

EID: 0038658999     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2003.43.2.253     Document Type: Article

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