Some time ago I wrote about the post-coup emergence of “sufficiency democracy” thinking. Some readers were, quite rightly, skeptical. But I am pleased to say that the idea has now been taken up by the Election Commission of Thailand.
Sufficiency democracy – you read it here first!
December 26th, 2006 by Andrew Walker · 2 Comments
Tags: Coup · Surayud regime · Thailand
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1 New Mandala » The rural threat // Jan 11, 2007 at 8:48 am
[...] Read this in the context of another interesting comment from The Nation’s Kavi Chongkittavorn: Some legislators and officials have already spoken of “sufficiency democracy” as part and parcel of the sufficiency economy. In Thai pracha thippatai poh peang might sound pleasing and reassuring but in English it is an antonym to freedom. Thai bureaucrats and developers have already treated the two concepts as mutually inclusive, which is extremely dangerous. Conservatives and royalists might want that to happen, citing the sufficiency economy as the bedrock for all blueprints. [...]
2 New Mandala » Sufficiency democracy in action // Aug 3, 2007 at 6:44 pm
[...] constitutional referendum is the junta’s first demonstration of sufficiency democracy in [...]
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