Thailandas Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy

by Andrew Walker

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 strongmen pressuring their neighbors through political bullying and vote-buying. In Thailand's Political Peasants, however, Andrew Walker argues that the emergence of an entirely new socioeconomic dynamic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299288242
• ISBN13: 9780299288242
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"