Desirable Characteristics of the Local Politicians in the Views of Trang Municipality Residents

Abstract

         This research aims to study a scale of perspectives of the people in Trang municipality,Trang province, about the desirable characteristics of ideally local politicians, and compare their perspectives with different personal characteristics towards the desirable characteristics of local politicians. The sample study accounts 400 people living in Trang municipality, Trang, whereby the sample in each community is specified in the same proportion. The study deploys a concept of accidental sampling for the sample selection coupled with questionnaires as a research tool. As of this study, different findings are found as follows; 1) the perspectives of the people in Trang municipality, Trang, on the desirable characteristics of local politicians are seen highest in score at all aspects. To this extent, the moral and ethical aspect has the highest mean value followed by personality and work experience. Whereas management and visional aspects are found to have the same value of mean, and 2) the people in the municipality with different components, including highest educational levels, and different monthly incomes, have different opinions on the desirable characteristics of local politicians at the statistical significance
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