• Current situation and trends in Thai local politics and government
• Objective of this Chapter
After this class, the students will be able to:
• describe Current situation and trends in Thai local politics and government;
• understand different Current situation and trends in Thai local politics and government;
• After decentralisation was first introduced in Thailand in 1897 in response to the colonization of neighboring countries and later, the 1994 that the TAO Act (SAO)was required to complete the government's decentralization plan, there were not genuinely
• decentralize or provide or result in the desired level of opportunities for the local people to participate.
• These happened because of several things as described below:
• Local Administrative Organizations across the county face difficulties carrying out their obligations under the government’s decentralisation policy
• There are problems relating to the Local Administrative Organization’s establishment.
• This make those Local Administrative Organization cannot work successfully.
• Territorial considerations
• The establishment of the local administrative organization was affects by a great difference facetors.
• This also refers to size and population that some local administrative organizations have large populations and many resources, and others without these.
• Those local administrative organizations with small populations will always face difficulty in gaining sufficient revenue to develop their localities.
• The size and number of villages
• The size and number of population where the local administrative organization locate will influence the capacity to develop policy and implement it effectively.
This can be explained in two ways:
• where there is a small number of population within a local area, the size of the local administrative organization will also be small
• To explain this, it will be less likely to have the staff capacity to carry out its role in cases where that local area requires a lot of staff to fulfill their work.
• where there is a large number of villages, the local administrative organization may not have a problem regarding the availability of staff, but it will require more expenditure in order to pay the staff’ swages.
• Problems regarding the scope and responsibilities of local administrative organization
• In theory, the government attempted to establish a coordination mechanism between government agencies and local authorities.
• This is by requiring all government agencies to operate development activities at the local level.
In practice, however, there are still conflicts in central agencies and civil servants’ minds not to accept a local administrative organization's status as an equal working partner.
• This is because those government agencies feel unsure whether the staff at the local administrative organization, particularly elected representatives from no government officials will work effectively.
• This can be explained that there are still many of them who lack of experience, information and knowledge on how to design the project.
• The problems regarding
scope and responsibilities
• The local administrative organization’s authority and functions specific in regulations are not clear enough to the staff to follow correctly.
• As a result, the staff who work at local level who have limited capabilities will always have difficulty performing their roles.
• The local administrative administration concentrates too much in fulfilling and initiating public activities that involve physical areas and basic structures, instead of promoting a good living standard and environment, health care, and education.
• The local administrative administration cannot complete all of the responsibilities according to its authority and function, due to the responsibilities not being transferred from the former central government
and/or there are problems stemming from the overlap of regulations at different levels of government.
• There is only a small number of local administrative administration that collaborate with other government organizations.
• This happens because the local administrative administration staff either ignore or do not really understand how to cooperate well with other organizations.
• The local administrative organization’s staff, especially those who are elected representatives, do not understand their role, authority, and responsibilities in order to work effectively.
• Problems regarding
insufficient revenue
• The local administrative organization’s staff only have limited capability to earn their own revenue.
• Consequently, they continue to rely on state funds for support.
• The local administrative organization’s staff who have responsibility for finance have limited capability in finance.
• There are also few staff members with relevant experience.
• Problems regarding conflict (input and output) between traditional forms of local leadership and local administrative organizations
• In theory, although the local administrative organizations play a role as an autonomous organization which can operate by itself under terms set by the central government,
• conflict (input and output) between traditional forms of local leadership and the local administrative organizations can undermine the ability to function effectively.
• Conclusion
• Although the government promulgated the decentralization policy, their development has not been successful due to several obstacles as mentioned above.
• According to Charoenmuang, on one hand, Thailand‘s local administrative organizations had long been under a combination of democracy and aristocracy;
• the local organizations are more influenced by aristocracy than democracy undermining the foundation of local self-governance.
• Activity
• Make a discussion within your group regarding changes and problems in contemporary Thai local politics and government as well as trends in Thai local politics and government that it should be in the future.
• Current situation and trends in Thai local politics and government• Objective of this ChapterAfter this class, the students will be able to:• describe Current situation and trends in Thai local politics and government;• understand different Current situation and trends in Thai local politics and government;• After decentralisation was first introduced in Thailand in 1897 in response to the colonization of neighboring countries and later, the 1994 that the TAO Act (SAO)was required to complete the government's decentralization plan, there were not genuinely • decentralize or provide or result in the desired level of opportunities for the local people to participate.• These happened because of several things as described below: • Local Administrative Organizations across the county face difficulties carrying out their obligations under the government’s decentralisation policy• There are problems relating to the Local Administrative Organization’s establishment.• This make those Local Administrative Organization cannot work successfully. • Territorial considerations• The establishment of the local administrative organization was affects by a great difference facetors. • This also refers to size and population that some local administrative organizations have large populations and many resources, and others without these. • Those local administrative organizations with small populations will always face difficulty in gaining sufficient revenue to develop their localities.
• The size and number of villages
• The size and number of population where the local administrative organization locate will influence the capacity to develop policy and implement it effectively.
This can be explained in two ways:
• where there is a small number of population within a local area, the size of the local administrative organization will also be small
• To explain this, it will be less likely to have the staff capacity to carry out its role in cases where that local area requires a lot of staff to fulfill their work.
• where there is a large number of villages, the local administrative organization may not have a problem regarding the availability of staff, but it will require more expenditure in order to pay the staff’ swages.
• Problems regarding the scope and responsibilities of local administrative organization
• In theory, the government attempted to establish a coordination mechanism between government agencies and local authorities.
• This is by requiring all government agencies to operate development activities at the local level.
In practice, however, there are still conflicts in central agencies and civil servants’ minds not to accept a local administrative organization's status as an equal working partner.
• This is because those government agencies feel unsure whether the staff at the local administrative organization, particularly elected representatives from no government officials will work effectively.
• This can be explained that there are still many of them who lack of experience, information and knowledge on how to design the project.
• The problems regarding
scope and responsibilities
• The local administrative organization’s authority and functions specific in regulations are not clear enough to the staff to follow correctly.
• As a result, the staff who work at local level who have limited capabilities will always have difficulty performing their roles.
• The local administrative administration concentrates too much in fulfilling and initiating public activities that involve physical areas and basic structures, instead of promoting a good living standard and environment, health care, and education.
• The local administrative administration cannot complete all of the responsibilities according to its authority and function, due to the responsibilities not being transferred from the former central government
and/or there are problems stemming from the overlap of regulations at different levels of government.
• There is only a small number of local administrative administration that collaborate with other government organizations.
• This happens because the local administrative administration staff either ignore or do not really understand how to cooperate well with other organizations.
• The local administrative organization’s staff, especially those who are elected representatives, do not understand their role, authority, and responsibilities in order to work effectively.
• Problems regarding
insufficient revenue
• The local administrative organization’s staff only have limited capability to earn their own revenue.
• Consequently, they continue to rely on state funds for support.
• The local administrative organization’s staff who have responsibility for finance have limited capability in finance.
• There are also few staff members with relevant experience.
• Problems regarding conflict (input and output) between traditional forms of local leadership and local administrative organizations
• In theory, although the local administrative organizations play a role as an autonomous organization which can operate by itself under terms set by the central government,
• conflict (input and output) between traditional forms of local leadership and the local administrative organizations can undermine the ability to function effectively.
• Conclusion
• Although the government promulgated the decentralization policy, their development has not been successful due to several obstacles as mentioned above.
• According to Charoenmuang, on one hand, Thailand‘s local administrative organizations had long been under a combination of democracy and aristocracy;
• the local organizations are more influenced by aristocracy than democracy undermining the foundation of local self-governance.
• Activity
• Make a discussion within your group regarding changes and problems in contemporary Thai local politics and government as well as trends in Thai local politics and government that it should be in the future.
การแปล กรุณารอสักครู่..
