ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างรัฐกับสังคมชนบท: กรณีศึกษาโครงการนาแปลงใหญ่ในสมัยรัฐบาล พลเอก ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา

• Main Author: มัณฑนา นกเสวก
• Other Authors: ธนพันธ์ ไล่ประกอบทรัพย์
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: Thai
• Published: จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย 2019
• Subjects: รัฐบาล > ไทย > สมัย พล.อ. ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา, 2557-; ข้าว > นโยบายของรัฐ; Rice > Government policy
• Online Access: https://digiverse.chula.ac.th/Info/item/dc:32749
• Institution: Chulalongkorn University

For several decades, rice subsidy policy has been implemented as an instrument of the state to dominate rural society. This thesis aims to analyze a pattern of relation between the state and rural society through the government’s rice subsidy policy that has been imposed under the authoritarianism context by using the rice mega farm program as a case study. The research questions are "what is the pattern of relations between the state and the rural society in the rice mega farm program in General Prayuth Chan-O-Cha’s government?" and "how does the rice mega farm program operating?" To answer the question, there are two theories: historical institutionalism under new institutionalism, and corporatism. Bang-Pahan district, Ayutthaya province, Thailand, is selected as the main area to collect the data for the research. The result shows that the pattern of relation between the state and the rural society under rice subsidy policy during General Prayuth Chan-O-Cha’s administration (including norms in decision-making, state mechanism that implements public policy, and the relations between the state and private-sectors) results from the policy transition (i.e., critical juncture) from the rice-pledging scheme crisis during Yingluck Shinawatra’s administration. Consequently, the Prayuth’s government has intentionally created the new rice subsidy policy that emphasizes on the rice supply chain management and avoiding market intervention to promote general economic fairness. Moreover, having used the Pracharath policy concept the government has a relationship with the private capitals in order to control the rural community mobilization and daily life of the farmers. The National Council for Peace and Order (NPCO) played a vital role in the decision-making process. The resource exchange among policy actors was used to sustain this policy network both formal and informal forms. This kind of relation tends to explain "state corporatism" theory. However, in actuality, the government could not be able to achieve the goal, even though the government supposed to have absolute power in the policy decision-making process under authoritarianism. Although, the politics were transitioned to electoral politics after the general election in 2019, the rice mega farm program is still the same. The reason is that the program is crafted by NPCO as the long plan of the Thai government under 20 years National Strategy. Therefore, the policy mechanism that used to implement this policy is aimed to prolong the legacy of the previous military government.