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100			_aKongkirati, Prajak _97607
245			_aFrom illiberal democracy to military authoritarianism: Intra-elite struggle and mass-based conflict in deeply polarized Thailand.
260			_c2019
300			_ap.24-40.
520			_aThailand 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.
650			_aAuthoritarianism _97608
650			_aMilitarism _97609
773			_aThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
906			_aDemocracy - Thailand
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