Politico-Administrative Entanglements in Thailand

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject South Asian Studies South-Eastern Asian Studies grade: A Thammasat University Bangkok (Faculty of Political Science) course: Thai Politics language: English abstract: This essay aims to outline above-mentioned politico-administrative entanglements in Thailand toenhance the understanding of the current state of affairs. This means analysing one of Thailand's mayorshortcomings: the mutual influence of the state bureaucracy and state politics on public policies. At first ashort briefing in historic public policy supremacies tries to deliver a background which will enable us tobetter understand the roots of the entanglements and the self-perception of both parties involved. In the next step the mutual influences will be disentangled focusing on the gradual politicization of the bureaucracy first; the methods to bureaucratize politics will follow suit. Both cases will be divided into their formal and informal formats. In addition to the Thai conclusions a comparison to the German case will be drawn. By sketching the historic and current German politico-administrative linkages and comparing them to the Thai case this paper aims to analyse what preconditions and processes have led to different and similar pattern between Thai and German politico-administrative interconnections.