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DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVES TO MALDEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF THAILAND

DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVES TO MALDEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF THAILAND SUTHY PARASARTSET
Contents

Foreword Yoshikazu Sakamoto

Ⅰ. Thai Economy under the Transnationalized Model of Accumulation

Ⅱ. Some Evidence of Maldevelopment

 a) Concentration of Income and Maginalization

 b) Widening Regional and Sectoral Income Gaps

 c) Depletion of the Natural Resource Base

Ⅲ. Process of “Redemocratization” and the Activation of Social Movements

Ⅳ. Prospect for Democratic Alternatives in Thailand

 a) Recent Political Changes in Thailand

 b) Transition to a Bourgeois-dominated Political System

 c) Some Current Problems in the Thai Democratic System

 d) Prospect for Democratic Alternatives

Ⅴ. Concluding Discussion

Postscript

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