Author: Riggs, Fred Warren
Title: Thailand : The Modernization of a Bureaucratic Polity
Description: Honolulu, East-West Center Press, 1966. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x16cm, xiv,470 pp.. Some rubbing. Binding corner bumps. VG. ¶ Contents: Traditional Polity: The Modernization of Siam & Burma; The Traditional Polity in Siam; Patterns of Modernization: The Transformation of the Monarchy; The Functionalization of the Bureaucracy; The Consolidation of Bureaucratic Rule; The Effort to Impose Accountability: Central Government; Local Government; The Modernized Polity: Cliques & Factions in the Thai Cabinet; Politics, Administration & High Finance; The Bureaucratic Polity as a Working System; Conclusion: The Theory of Modernization; Appendices: Thai Cabinet Ministers; Chronology of Thai Political History, 1932-63; Promoters in Thai Cabinets.

Keywords: Thailand, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Politics, Modernization, Political History, , ,