01623nam a2200169 4500 510164 510164 190802b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Kongkirati, Prajak 7607 From illiberal democracy to military authoritarianism: Intra-elite struggle and mass-based conflict in deeply polarized Thailand. 2019 p.24-40. Thailand fits the pattern of pernicious polarized politics identified in this volume, where a previously excluded group successfully gains political power through the ballot box, governs unilaterally to pursue radical reforms, and produces a backlash from the traditional power elites. In Thailand, elite conflict has been a major part of the story, but this article argues that political polarization there cannot be merely understood as “elite-driven”: conflict among the elites and the masses, and the interaction between them, produced polarized and unstable politics. Violent struggle is caused by class structure and regional, urban-rural disparities; elite struggle activates the existing social cleavages; and ideological framing deepens the polarization. While the Yellow Shirts and traditional elites want to restore and uphold the “Thai-style democracy” with royal nationalism, the Red Shirts espouse the “populist democracy” of strong elected government with popular nationalism and egalitarian social order. - Reproduced. Authoritarianism 7608 Militarism 7609 The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Democracy - Thailand ddc AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 384106 IIPA IIPA 2019-08-02 681, Jan, 2019: p.24-40. AR120121 2019-08-02 AR