OPINION

Thai authoritarianism: past and present

News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 22/08/2014

» Thailand’s political pendulum has swung wildly. It has now completed a dramatic reversal, pitting the electoral authoritarianism of Thaksin Shinawatra from the early 2000s against the thinly veiled dictatorship of General Prayuth Chan-ocha in the mid-2010s.