Conclusion
The propagation of Thai-style democracy was an attempt to end perennial questions of political legitimacy by tapping into traditional rationalities of rule, but which left open the road to the development of a democratic people, once economic questions had been addressed and a middle class had come into being.
By suppressing the institutional elements of 'Western' democracy and then salvaging Thainess as a resource for a distinctive form of democracy facilitative of political stability and economic growth, Sarit's regime was in a position to bring to centre-stage the discourse of development of legitimacy. Economic development and its prerequisites were elevated as regime requirements and outcomes.
Sarit's suppression of elements of liberal democracy had its ideological antecedents not simply in royalist myth but also in the notion of "public opinion'. As Thailand shifted to a new consolidated state form emergent in its relationship with the US which brought security to the state and a degree of market openness to the economy, the tensions of Thai-style democracy as a basis for government were soon to be felt. Within a few short years the regime would begin embracing political developmental notions of democracy and fusing them with elements of Thai-style democracy. The shift back to the requirement for rational citizens, not dependent subjects of benevolent regimes that Thai-style democracy implied, would be gradual basis on which the modern and contradictory, but it formed the only mobilize state of Thailand was able to interact with and its subjects as active participants.
Conclusion The propagation of Thai-style democracy was an attempt to end perennial questions of political legitimacy by tapping into traditional rationalities of rule, but which left open the road to the development of a democratic people, once economic questions had been addressed and a middle class had come into being. By suppressing the institutional elements of 'Western' democracy and then salvaging Thainess as a resource for a distinctive form of democracy facilitative of political stability and economic growth, Sarit's regime was in a position to bring to centre-stage the discourse of development of legitimacy. Economic development and its prerequisites were elevated as regime requirements and outcomes. Sarit's suppression of elements of liberal democracy had its ideological antecedents not simply in royalist myth but also in the notion of "public opinion'. As Thailand shifted to a new consolidated state form emergent in its relationship with the US which brought security to the state and a degree of market openness to the economy, the tensions of Thai-style democracy as a basis for government were soon to be felt. Within a few short years the regime would begin embracing political developmental notions of democracy and fusing them with elements of Thai-style democracy. The shift back to the requirement for rational citizens, not dependent subjects of benevolent regimes that Thai-style democracy implied, would be gradual basis on which the modern and contradictory, but it formed the only mobilize state of Thailand was able to interact with and its subjects as active participants.
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