Political Science Faculty Publications
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Article
Abstract
Although democratization in Thailand in the 1990s is commonly characterized as a classic case of modernization theory in action, economic globalization provides a better explanation for Thailand's democratization process. Economic growth in the country has been based on foreign capital and has created a globalized economy sensitive to the confidence of world capital markets. Moreover, the Thai middle classes cannot be characterized as having coherent political preferences, and it is arguable that the 1992 middle class protests were more about suspicions of official corruption than about democracy.
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Englehart, Neil A., "Democracy and the Thai Middle Class: Globalization, Modernization, and Constitutional Change" (2003). Political Science Faculty Publications. 50.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/poli_sci_pub/50
Publication Date
3-2003
Publication Title
Asian Survey
Publisher
University of California Press
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2003.43.2.253
Start Page No.
253
End Page No.
279