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The 2006 Anti-Thaksin Movement in Thailand: An Analysis.
In: Journal of Contemporary Asia, Jg. 38 (2008-02-01), Heft 1, S. 38-61
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This article examines the mass protests against Thailand's billionaire Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006. Over a series of several months, hundreds of thousands of people took part in demonstrations that created a deep political crisis and forced Thaksin to call snap elections. This political crisis was partly a result of intra-elite conflict between the old power elite and Thaksin's "CEO-style" rule, which opened up space for a broader politicisation. However, a closer look at Thaksin's own mass support and a comparison of his populism with Venezuela's President Chavez leads us to the analysis that the crisis resulted from deeper contradictions with- in Thaksin's "post neo-liberal" capitalist restructuring project. The movement against Thaksin thus drew on and brought together different sections of Thai society rebelling against Free Trade Agreements, privatisation and authoritarian, corporate-dominated politics. The article concludes with some reflections on the movement and the question of royal intervention and the coup d'état. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The 2006 Anti-Thaksin Movement in Thailand: An Analysis.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Pye, Oliver ; Schaffar, Wolfram |
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Zeitschrift: | Journal of Contemporary Asia, Jg. 38 (2008-02-01), Heft 1, S. 38-61 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2008 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0047-2336 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1080/00472330701651945 |
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