The movement of implementing the Master Plan of Public Sector Reform
B.C. 2540-2545 (1997-2001) and the success of bureaucratic reforms in the United
Kingdom, Sweden, France, Australia, and the USA which represented the application
of the New Public Administration Model (NPM) has become a significant catalyst for
change in the Thai public sector (Bongkoch Sutad NaAyuthaya, 2010). Consequently,
Thai public administration reform was pushed forward and made significant progress
in the period that Taksin Shinnawatra was the Prime Minister of Thailand.