American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research (AJHSSR)
2018
American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research (AJHSSR) e-ISSN :2378-703X Volume-02, Issue-02, pp-01-15 www.ajhssr.com
Research Paper
Open Access
The Vote, Election and Democracy in Southeast Asia : A Case of Thailand Assoc. Prof. PaithoonBhothisawang, Ph.D. Faculty of Political Science and Law, Burapha University169 Long-Hard Bangsaen Road, Saen Suk Sub-district, Mueang District, Chonburi 20131.
ABSTRACT:Thailand is located in Southeast Asia. Thailand's democracy was still struggling that is a military coup by the loop 13 times. The last time was on May 22, 2014.Every time a new constitution to allow more democratic and promised to re-election soon. Elections in Thailand are interesting. The purpose of this research is to determine the factors that influence the election of political leaders in Thailand then create a mathematical equation to know what the votes are derived from and how important are each of them? A total of 1522 samples from the four constituencies were randomly sampled. In the North, 423 are sampled of member of parliaments(MPs) election, In the Central are 373 sampled of Mayor election, In the Northeastern region, are 322 sampled of village headman election and in the Southern part of the constituency is the Head of the Subdistrict Administrative Organization(SAO) are 404 sample. By using “Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis� The research found that the most influential factors in getting the most votes and winning the election are political campaigns and tactics. Second, political affiliations or political parties, grouppolicy (Party, Group).Third,relief aid,kinship and patronage (Patronage) and finally, the distribution of wealth and money (Money) statistically significant at the .05 level. It is considered that these factors are differently down the hierarchy. This can be written as an equation as Obtaining the vote 1 = 33.54 + .37 Campaign +.23 Party, Group - .12 Patronage + .09Money. Factors that did not affect the voting result were statistically significant at the .05 level and not according to hypothesis that was set are Personal Qualification of Candidates (Personal), Donation to the community and the public (Donation) And gambling fraud and bribery (Fraud). The suggestion for this research is the agency responsible for the election should find ways to prevent the distribution of political capital to political people to gain more votes. Politicians and political parties should consider using the campaign strategy. Determine your party's or group's policies and factors. In the equation, what factors will have the effect of making itself and its representative party victorious in elections. Researchers should extend this research to broader scope of research so that they can be used as a new political theory. Keywords:The Vote, Election, Leader, Southeast Asia I. INTRODUCTION Thailand is located in Southeast Asia, The center of the 10 ASEAN countries. Thailand is the only country to avoid a colony of Europe has been achieved several years ago .Once the US military bases in the war against Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to fight communism loop until 1975. Thailand is a democratic revolutionary change of government in 1932. So far, more than 80 years ago. Thailand's democracy was still struggling that is a military coup by the loop 13 times. Every time a new constitution to allow more democratic, the last time was on May 22,2014 the military coup begin again.The reason that to maintain order and also claimed the elected government is corrupt and political leaders and politicians to buy the votes. During this time the constitution was drafted at 20 to build a new democracy. Democracy is a regime that values the rights of the individual compared to other forms of government. Democracy is based on three principles: Popular Sovereignty, Freedom and Liberty, Equality. It is therefore generally accepted that democracy is the least evil rule because the rule in the democratic system give opportunity for the majority of people to influence the mechanism of the state with equal and free political competition. In order to obtain a delegation of people to represent the people in the administration of the country, they must obtain the consent of the people and administer the country according to the willing of the people. To look at the power of the people through agents or the party is going through a political process called "Elections" cannot be separated from democracy.
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