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International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 2008 8(3):279-302; doi:10.1093/irap/lcn012
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This article appears in the following International Relations of the Asia-Pacific issue: SPECIAL ISSUE: Research outcomes from the AsiaBarometer project [View the issue table of contents]

Legitimacy and effectiveness in Thailand, 2003–2007: perceived quality of governance and its consequences on political beliefs

Satoru Mikami1 and Takashi Inoguchi2

1 Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Email: mikamisatoru{at}gmail.com
2 Faculty of Law, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
Email: inoguchi{at}ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
This article investigates the political attitudes of Thai citizens, who have been exposed to a harsh political climate in recent years. Two questions we address here are: (a) how people perceived the quality of governance under the Thaksin administration and the subsequent provisional military government, and (b) what impacts, if any, the populist style of politics as well as the military coup have had on the political beliefs of the Thai population. The statistical analysis based on AsiaBarometer Survey data locates a plunge in public perception that occurred during the period between the Thaksin era and the military government, but it also reveals that the difference is largely a product of inflated populist policies, and that people's commitment to a democratic system was already fragile before the coup.

Received for publication June 10, 2008. Accepted for publication June 19, 2008.


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