Thai Politics according to the Masterplots (1932-2014)

           The objectives of this research were to study the Thai politics after the period of absolute monarchy from 1932 to 2014. The study explained the political history of Thailand from the past to the tendency for the future according to the masterplots. The findings of the study were as the following. The masterplots concerning the competition for hegemony over the country’s constitutions between the progressives as the protagonist and the royalists as the antagonist were conducted by the 5 plots which developed under a set of foundational principles of story outline: exposition, objective, confrontation, and ending (knockout power). They revealed that the progressives could not have maintained so wide a hegemony over the country’s constitutions since 1932 to 2014. It was because the “sovereignty of the people” referred to in all of the country’s constitutions has completely not related with the House of Representatives and the people’s political participation and the country’s constitutions would be violated by a coup d'état which has been a part of the vicious cycle that has ceaselessly occurred for 83 years. In terms of the masterplots, the progressives had been the person being influenced by an obligation, fighting to achieve a cherished ideal, assuming a role that leads directly to catastrophe which oppressed them to make the supreme sacrifice, to encounter situations whereby a wrong was righted, and finally to confront a puzzle with no solution. Therefore, the theme of political history of Thailand from 1932-2014 was that “Where there is a will, there is not a way.” In addition and most importantly, if the theme would not remain stable, the future of Thai politics would not have occurred in the same way.

Credit : เจษฎาภรณ์ อัจฉริโยภาส

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