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010 _a 2019017309
020 _a9780801449994 (hbk)
020 _a0801449995 (hbk)
035 _a(OCoLC)1097474049
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040 _aNIC/DLC
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042 _apcc
043 _aa-th---
050 _aKPT2613
_b.M33 2019
100 0 _aMcCargo, Duncan.
245 1 0 _aFighting for virtue :
_bjustice and politics in Thailand /
_cDuncan McCargo.
260 _aIthaca :
_bCornell University Press,
_c2019.
300 _axii, 261 p.
490 1 _aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
520 _a"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"--
650 4 _aPolitical questions and judicial power
_zThailand.
650 4 _aJudicial power
_zThailand.
650 4 _aJudges
_zThailand.
651 4 _aThailand
_xPolitics and government
_y21st century.
830 0 _aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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_cBK
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