PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL POLITICS OF PEOPLE IN CHANGKLANG DISTRICT, NAKHON SI THAMMARAT PROVINCE

Abstract

The objectives of this thematic were as follows 1) to study on participation in local politics of people in Changklang district, Nakhon Si Thammarat province. 2) to compare on participation in local politics of people in Changklang district, Nakhon Si Thammarat province in terms of sexes, ages, degrees of education, and occupations as differently and 3). to study the suggestions on problem and resolution on participation in local politics of people in Changklang district, Nakhon Si Thammarat province. The population were people who have right for general election in Changklang district, Nakhon Si Thammarat province for 30,023 persons, sample size according to Taro Yamane’s formula, the samples were about 400 persons, the instrument for data collection was questionnaire, data analysis by package computer program, the statistics were applied as follows; frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t-test, F-test and to test the difference in each pair by LSD method

          The findings were as follows:

1.         Participation in local politics of people in Changklang district, Nakhon Si Thammarat province by overview was at more level for all aspects when considered in each aspect found that the aspect of checking and evaluate were the highest mean, and followed up the aspect of political right using and the aspect of political news following was the lowest mean respectively. classified in terms of sexes, ages, degrees of education, and occupations found that by overview was at more level.


2.         The comparative results on participation in local politics of people in Changklang district, Nakhon Si Thammarat province in terms of ages, degrees of education and occupations found that there were different as statistically significance at 0.05, and in terms of sexes found that there were not different as statistically significance at 0.05.


3.         The suggestions on participation in local politics of people in Changklang district, Nakhon Si Thammarat province. The highest frequency problem found that the aspect of public information and application of chief and member of sub-district administrative organization were less. The resolution found that the highest was the aspect of political news following i.e. there should have more public information multi media to people know on political news as usual.