Date: December 5th, 2013 12:00 - 13:30 Venue: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201), CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Title: Explaining Reform Politics in Thailand, 1980–2012:Coalition, Constitution, and Economic Consequences Speaker: Dr. Veerayooth Kanchoochat , Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Abstract: This paper provides an explanation for Thailand’s long-term policy-making patterns and their economic consequences from 1980 to 2012. First, and primarily, I develop a typology of reform orientation in Thailand, conditioned by two factors: (a) government type (strong or fragmented party), and (b) ruling-coalition type (unelected or elected elites). When under strong leadership, reform was substantively implemented; its orientation was forged into fiscal restructuring […]