Agents, principals, or something in between? Bureaucrats and policy control in Thailand

• Main Author: RICKS, Jacob
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Politician-bureaucrat Relations; Agency Theory; Policy-making; Bureaucratic Politics; Thailand; Asian Studies; Political Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2527; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3784/viewcontent/2018_01_17_JEAS_AgentsPrincipals_ForSharing.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In the aftermath of the 2006 and 2014 Thai coups,observers declared the resurrection of the bureaucratic polity. Bureaucrats,though, remained influential even during the period of 1992-2006, when electedpoliticians were thought to command the Thai state. Bureaucratic involvement inpolitics poses a c...