Book contents
- Regime Type and Beyond
- Regime Type and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Part I Framework
- Part II Authoritarian Policing: Past and Present
- Part III Democratic Transition and Authoritarian Resilience
- 7 Public Order, Social Drama, and Legitimate Force
- 8 Adaptive Authoritarian Policing
- 9 Organizational Legacies of Authoritarian Police in Postwar Japan
- 10 Authoritarian Policing and Democratization
- Part IV The Singapore and Hong Kong Exceptions
- Part V Conclusions
- Index
10 - Authoritarian Policing and Democratization
The Case of Thailand
from Part III - Democratic Transition and Authoritarian Resilience
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2023
- Regime Type and Beyond
- Regime Type and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Part I Framework
- Part II Authoritarian Policing: Past and Present
- Part III Democratic Transition and Authoritarian Resilience
- 7 Public Order, Social Drama, and Legitimate Force
- 8 Adaptive Authoritarian Policing
- 9 Organizational Legacies of Authoritarian Police in Postwar Japan
- 10 Authoritarian Policing and Democratization
- Part IV The Singapore and Hong Kong Exceptions
- Part V Conclusions
- Index
Summary
To test the hypothesis of policing as a function of regime type, this chapter focuses on the evolutions of political policing in light of recent Thai political developments – as only political policing is expected to be affected by democratization. Indeed, whether in times of full-fledged military dictatorship or in times of electoral democracy, routine service-oriented, law-enforcement type of policing remains relatively constant. This chapter argues that post-1970s democratization in Thailand had minimal effects on the entrenched practices of authoritarian policing. Democratization did not put an end to these practices but instead correlated with their legalization through the enactment of a set of empowering legislations. This empirical finding invites reconsideration of the hypothesis of a covariation of regime type and policing practices.
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- Regime Type and BeyondThe Transformation of Police in Asia, pp. 244 - 264Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023