Introduction: Understanding Thailand’s Politics

Journal of Contemporary Asia

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 371-387

  Kanchoochat, Veerayooth ^a   Hewison, Kevin ^b  

^a NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; bureaucratic polity; democratisation; hybrid regimes; network monarchy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974528035     PISSN: 00472336     EISSN: 17527554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1173305     Document Type: Editorial

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