The Role of Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University Student Leaders in the Political Decision on the Democratic Way of Life: The Case Study of Election of the President of the Provincial Administrative Organization and Member of the Ubon Ratchathani Provincial Council

Abstract

        The aims of this research were as follows: 1) to study the factors of the political environment of student leaders in Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University, 2) to study political decision-making in a democratic way of student leaders in Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University, and 3) to study the role of Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University student leaders in making political decisions in a democratic way: a case study of the election of the Provincial Administrative Organization and Ubon Ratchathani Provincial Councilors. The research sample of 132 student leaders and a simple random sampling method. The data were collected by questionnaires and analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The qualitative study's target group of ten student leaders was chosen using a purposive sampling method, and data were collected through interviews and analyzed using content analysis. The results showed that 1) the overall political environment factors were at a high level. The part with the highest average was political developed, 2) the overall democratic political decision-making was at a high level, and the part with the highest average was the role of a political observer, respectively.