Thailand’s 2019 vote: The general’s election

• Main Author: RICKS, Jacob
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: constitutional engineering; democracy; elections; military junta; thailand; thailand party system; Asian Studies; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3484; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4742/viewcontent/Ricks2019_TheGeneralsElection_PrepublicationVersion.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Thailand's March 2019 ballot was the first for the country since 2011, and for many it signaled the potential end of the military junta's five-year rule. But was it truly a return to democracy? This essay argues that the election was far from a democratization event. Instead, it was a high...