Democracy and National Identity in Thailand by Connors, Michael Kelly -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Book Cover Half-Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction

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2 Making democracy mean something

Political development and order Hegemony Government Towards the idea of democrasubjection Notes

3 Before the doctrine

Capitalism, the nation and the possibility of citizenship Constitutions, politics and the new state Democracy and citizenship in the post-revolutionary period Citizens’ manuals Conclusion Notes

4 Developmental democracy

Developmental democracy The local administration department and statist democratic discourse Background to LAD LAD democracy Manual democracy Another liberalism Conclusion Notes

5 Delayed liberalism, the general will The doctrine entrenched

Interludes: from ‘democratic socialism’ to liberal democracy Political openings, ideological closings Accounting for the change Freedom with chains: military responses to communism and parliamentary democracy LAD: security and democracy Writing LAD democracy Conclusion Notes

6 Citizen King

Renewing the nation/renewing the monarchy Towards national ideology once more Towards national identity: to be a democratic Thai The hegemonic work of the NIB Notes

7 New times, new constitution

Senior doctors and white swans Poised for reform Input/output and the people’s constitution The conservatives cave in In summary Notes

8 Liberalism, civil society and new projects of subjection

Thai liberalism: between society, the state and security The liberal engagement: developing political institutions Institutions and planning democracy Liberal mouthpieces Liberal civic education and civil society Liberal democrasubjection Notes

9 Rethinking the nation in times of crisis

NGOs, rights and development From radicalism to reform Socializing political reform, mitigating the economic crisis The Forces of the Land Forum Culture and democracy: a campaign Liberalism, communitarianism and possible futures A communitarianism for a liberal future Notes

10 Final comments Select bibliography

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