Can “New Institutionalism” in Thai Constitution (2017) create a peaceful society?
Keywords:
Institutional, New Institutionalism, peace, cooperation and conflict, Thai Constitution 2017Abstract
Can the current Thai Constitution (2017), which was analyzed based on the concept of “New Institutionalism”, prevent a coup d’etat and create political stability? Will Bangkok be a peaceful society and how can it be? What are factors that can promote reconciliation or reduce wars between people with different color shirts? Should policy makers/ Thai political leaders step away from the Old Institutionalism and move to the New Institutionalism so that Thailand politics will be better in the near future? The purposes of this article are a) to employ the concept of New Institutionalism to explain the cooperation and conflicts based on the Constitution 2017 to see whether or not it can create peace in the Thai society and b) to explore whether or not, based on the Thai Constitution (2017), Thailand will be able to reduce conflicts and be free from the next coup d’etat. The author would like express political opinions through various perspectives. The article emphasizes that the New Institutionalism should build up “Institutional” to the Thai politics and create cooperation and harmonious living among Thai people.
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