Thaksin's Populism

CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 3

Where this source is used

• Phongpaichit and Baker argue that Thaksin was not populist on taking office in 2001 but adopted populist rhetoric and personalized authority in stages through 2006.

  • supports · pp. 62–83, abstract and stages of populist development

• Thai political use of ประชานิยม (prachaniyom) cannot be treated as an exact, context-free equivalent of every English-language definition of populism.

  • supports · pp. 62–66, Thai political vocabulary and classification context

• The selected policy statement establishes proposed measures, while the later scholarly classification turns on rhetoric and representation as well as redistribution; the program alone does not prove populism.

  • supports · pp. 62–83