Thailand : : The Modernization of a Bureaucratic Polity / / Fred W. Riggs.
Thailand, unique among the nations of Southeast Asia, has no colonial history. The Thai government, unlike those of neighboring counties, has not evolved under imposed foreign systems. While counties all around her were experiencing domination by foreign governments, Thailand, free of such dominatio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021] ©1966 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | East-West Center Press
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS
- LIST OF TABLES
- Introduction
- PART ONE: THE TRADITIONAL POLITY
- CHAPTER I The Modernization of Siam and Burma
- CHAPTER II The Traditional Polity in Siam
- PART TWO: PATTERNS OF MODERNIZATION
- CHAPTER III The Transformation of the Monarchy
- CHAPTER IV The Functionalization of the Bureaucracy
- CHAPTER V The Consolidation of Bureaucratic Rule
- CHAPTER VI The Effort to Impose Accountability: Central Government
- CHAPTER VII The Effort to Impose Accountability: Local Government
- PART THREE: THE MODERNIZED POLITY
- CHAPTER VIII Cliques and Factions in the Thai Cabinet
- CHAPTER IX Politics, Administration, and High Finance
- CHAPTER X The Bureaucratic Polity as a Working System
- CHAPTER XI Conclusion: The Theory of Modernization
- APPENDIXES, NOTES, AND INDEX
- APPENDIX A THAI CABINET MEMBERS
- APPENDIX B: Chronology of Thai Political History, 1932-63
- APPENDIX C: Promoters in Thai Cabinets
- NOTES
- INDEX