The disturbance of Thailand democratic stableness is
determined through the long term monarchial regime. The challenges faced by
Thailand to maintain their democratic aspiration is the social disorder and
social confusions, the attempt of the society to overthrow the government led to many cultural
re-orientation and conflict in their interest as a nation. Thailand has never
been a colony of western countries and it is the major reason of the political
chaos of Thailand. The introduction of democracy in Thailand is very limited,
even scholars from Thailand that have studied in western hemisphere have a
little knowledge on the procedure under a democratic government. Democracy is a
real foreign subject for Thailand, so that is the one reason of Thailand on their
confusion understanding the democratic form of government. Their long period of
monarchical regime was embedded on the way do politics. The authoritarian twist
on the democratic form of Thailand is reflected on their profound political
culture of Thailand. A semi-democratic form of government shows that democratic
success will be observed at basic formulation or establishment of a government,
it must be a complimentary and fit to the culture of a country. The application of democracy to a government
shall not be forced, the agony of Thailand’s government illustrate that the
application of democracy comes in a precise timing. The installment of
democratic form of government by force will result in social and political
disorder and the economical aspect will dragged down, so the three aspect of
the society will experience an epic fall. The establishment of pure democracy
in Thailand is in grave challenge in the acceptance of the society, the
Thailand customized democracy to fit their culture promoting their big
difference on the western countries. The semi-democracy or democracy with a
flavor of authoritarian shows significant effect on the pursuance of Asian
countries towards democracy, the effectiveness of semi-democratic form of
government invites some Asian countries to customize their form of democracy.
Many attempt of twisting the idea of democracy have been introduce in the
modern politics. The maintenance of Thailand independence shows that the rapid
shifts of political system will mislead the development of political,
economical and social factor of a country.
The military
regimes in Thailand, the failure of Thailand government protecting its
government from autocrat’s ruler serves a solution to their agony on how they
will pursue democratization. The twist of authoritarian will fit the democracy
aspired by Thailand. The pure authoritarian regime has come to an end and
Thailand has formulated the form of government they are seeking for.
Institutionalizing democracy faced many challenges on time when Thailand
experiencing disorder. The different interest of Thailand’s people led them to
many coup attempts and revolution to overthrow the government. The delivery of
political and individual’s rights in an authoritarian rule would be very
contrary to the concept of military regimes, the aspiration of the people to attain
political and individual rights had been addressed by the present government.
The regime of military in Thailand political setting is based on their
monarchial history and inherited by the society. The outrageous reaction of
youth leaders is also the factor that brought Thailand to military regime. The
disorder on their society invites an authoritarian regime to promulgate
discipline into the society. The abuse of the use of military power encourages
the society to revolt and to overthrow the authoritarian regime. The society
puts an end to the authoritarian regime in Thailand.
The Thailand democracy and its fall, the insufficiency of
the democratic establishment on Thailand’s government faced challenges that led
them to failure. After an authoritarian regime the youth scholars experimented
a democratic form of government, there representatives are elected and
appointed by the elites. The protest of the society against the democratic
experiment has escalated and disorder in their political setting comes. The
stability of the democratic form of government is challenge by different sector
of the society. The democratic government has been a failure addressing the
interest of Thailand socio-political aspects. The successive shifts on
Thailand’s political setting have put a devastating effect on their political,
economical and social stability.
The birth of new political system of Thailand, the
establishment of military regime to serves as a vanguard against communism.
Abolishing all democratic institution to have genuine authoritarian regime to
secure the national interest and hindered the penetration of communism. The
authoritarian rule with a package of liberalism to secure them from the threat
of communism and a strong drive towards reunifying the society of Thailand,
ensuring the order in the society is the primary focus of the authoritarian
regime. Their aspiration of Thailand government to formulate a political system
that will address the problems of the society has begging to crystallize. The semi-democratic
emerged from the Thailand political system, the aspiration of Thailand to have
a government that will fit their culture has been materialized in the
semi-democratic form. Its neither authoritarianism nor pure democracy but a
mixture of two ideology that compliment with their chaotic political system.
The effectiveness of the semi-democratic form on Thailand’s political setting
is reached its stability. The present Thailand political system can be called
neither a democracy nor an authoritarian system. It falls between the two
political modes but has been shifting incrementally away from semi-democratic
towards democracy. The semi-democratic model, which was a political compromise
between the bureaucratic and non-bureaucratic forces, has been under pressure
both externally and internally (Thailand: A Stable Semidemocratic). The
semi-democratic setting of Thailand promised a thrust towards democracy, the
substantial aspiration of Thailand to gear towards democracy is a long journey
for the Thai’s political setting. The disadvantages of both authoritarian and
democracy are the factor that puts Thailand in a great agony. The political
inconsistency of Thailand led them to pursue a semi-democratic form of
government.
For my conclusion, the search of Thailand’s government
for a type of government that is suitable for their inconsistency and political
disturbance has been found in the form of mixture of authoritarian and democracy, the
semi-democracy. All Asian countries have hard finding the missing essential
element on how they can pursue democracy. The diversity of the Orientals led
them to seek a hybrid government or political system. The ideology from the
western hemisphere is somehow find it way to cope with the extreme and diverse
culture of Asia. Thailand illustrate that aspiring democratization would not be
impossible for the Asian nations. The complex inhabitants of Asia show
significant transformation on how a foreign ideology will fit their custom. In
the case of Thailand democratization, the time will come for them to deliver
full democratic government to its people and resolving the agony of
inconsistency.
The semi-democratic form government is an indication of
the complexity of the field study of politics; you cannot determine what will
be done by different political thinkers. The customization of different
ideology is an evolution on our age, the filtration of good factors on every
political system until it will attain the highest form of government. It is
observed around the world that the mixing of different forms, type and
ideologies is a factor reaching success in governing. The ideal prospect of
every government around the world will meet its solution, the Thailand
political context show a well-defined pursuance towards democratization. The
quest of different nation to acquire democracy will come to an end and the
solution will be determined by their vigilant aim to pursue democratization
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