Fighting for Virtue : Justice and Politics in Thailand / Duncan McCargo
พิมพลักษณ์
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
จำนวนหน้า
xii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
หมายเหตุบรรณานุกรม
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-251) and index.
หมายเหตุสารบัญ
Introduction : legalism and the revival of treason -- Privileged caste? -- Bench and throne -- Challenges to the judiciary -- Against the crown? -- Computer compassings -- Against the state -- Crimes of Thaksin -- Courting constitutionalism -- Conclusion : the trouble is politics
สาระสังเขป
"Offers an analysis of the recent era of "judicialization," using close scrutiny of some key trials to explain how and why Thailand's judges proved unable to resolve the country's longstanding political crisis, despite their royal mandate to do so"
หัวเรื่อง
Political questions and judicial power -- Thailand.