Becoming citizens: Policy feedback and the transformation of the Thai rice farmer

• Main Authors: RICKS, Jacob, LAIPRAKOBSUB, Thanapan
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• 主題: Rural transformation; policy feedback; rice politics; Thailand; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Asian Studies; Economic Policy
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3486; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4744/viewcontent/RicksThanapan2020_BecomingCitizens_ForSharing.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

Over the past twenty years, Thailand’s rice farmers have become one of the country’s most important and active political constituencies, a sharp contrast from the previous decades wherein they were treated with neglect or even derision by the Thai political elite. These “political peasants” now acti...