Fighting for Virtue : : Justice and Politics in Thailand / / Duncan McCargo.
Fighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand's judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country's intractable political problems-and what happened next. Across the last decade of Rama IX's rule, Duncan McCargo examines the wor...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) :; 12 b&w photos, 1 b&w line drawing |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Legalism and Revival of Treason
- 1. Privileged Caste?
- 2. Bench and Throne
- 3. Challenges to the Judiciary
- 4. Against the Crown?
- 5. Computer Compassings
- 6. Against the State
- 7. Crimes of Thaksin
- 8. Courting Constitutionalism
- Conclusion: The Trouble Is Politics
- Notes
- Index