Thailand’s Political Changes in Post-Thaksin Era：A Perspective of Democratic Retreat

• Main Authors: WU, CHIA-HAO, 吳家豪
• Other Authors: CHEN, PEI-HSIU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kaduhj

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 東南亞學系 === 106 === The core of traditional political structure of Thailand is mainly surrounded by the interaction between Thai king, military and literati. Since the absolute monarchy had been changed to the constitutional monarchy in 1932, the democratic development of Thailand evolved during changes between the military government and the literati government. After Black May (Bloody May) in 1992, Thailand officially entered the democratic era which was based on elections, people are optimistic about Thailand's development towards Comprehensive democracy.However, in 2006, Thai military launched a military coup which was separated by 15 years. Although the military tried to rectify the political situation in order to avoid the vicious cycle, the military could not reply to the past dictatorship. In 2014, the military launched the coup again, immediately enacted an provisional constitution and later enacted the new constitution in 2016. The military prohibited public procession and public meetings over 5 people, and also delayed the election by various reasons. The power is still controlled by the military so far.Although the military government declare that the election will be held in February 2019 at the latest, people believe it is only an estimation, the government has not given any promise. Therefore, it is possible to speculate that the intention of the military government is to restore the power of the past authoritarian rule, leading to serious damage to the democracy of Thailand.