Politics and the price of rice in Thailand: Public choice, institutional change and rural subsidies

• Main Author: RICKS, Jacob
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Rice Politics; Institutions; Paddy Pledging Scheme; Rural Development; Thailand; Populism; Asian Studies; Political Economy; Rural Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2408; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3665/viewcontent/2017_03_06_RicePolitics_ForSharing.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Despite the Thai state’s long record of rice market interventions, historically politicians failed to leverage rice subsidies in their pursuit of political support, notwithstanding the large number of farmers in the country. Since Thaksin Shinawatra’s election in 2001, though, each government has su...