Fighting for virtue : justice and politics in Thailand / Duncan McCargo.
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TextSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.Description: xii, 261 pISBN: - 9780801449994 (hbk)
- 0801449995 (hbk)
- KPT2613 .M33 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"--
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