Since the Thai government announced and promoted the decentralisation policy, Thailand’s national administration continues
to be dominated by a ‘top-down’ approach which gives the local government level has less opportunity to participate in political system.
While government at provincial level are assigned from central government to work, government staff at the local level
even have limited opportunity to perform their responsibility as to exercise their own authority.
• Local government official are promoted while being transferred among several local authorities under control by the
government at higher level.
• There are three main characteristics of the Local Administrative Organisation system promulgated in Thailand during
1990s:
(1) There was a dual system of local administrative organization that that referred to the autonomy line and central government line which
at first, the local authorities were headed by the representatives who were elected by local residents (Kamnan) and later the system was changed and the local authorities were operated by the provincial governors and district officers
(Central government’s control)