What Connectivity Matters in Enhancing Thai Local Governance? Empirical Evaluation of Thai Local Government Survey in 2006
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Since the enactment of Act on Tambon Council and Tambon Administrative Organization (TAO) in 1994, 2 decades has passed. It has created almost 7 thousand basic local governments in rural areas from 1995 to 1997. Then, Thai Constitution of 1997 was promulgated, which strengthened autonomy of existing local governments and promoted decentralization. And based on the Decentralization Promotion Act of 1999, massive devolution of duties and responsibilities, financial resources, and personnel was implemented. There are many case studies on local governance in Thailand. Nonetheless, there are few research on local governance based on systematic qualitative analysis. In this paper, we will identify several factors to affect capability of local government, based on the Thai local government survey conducted in 2006 by the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) of Japan and Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University. 2 different types of questionnaires were sent to all TAOs and Thesaban (Municipalities) by mailing. And collection ratio was 35%. After identifying important variables, correlation shall be explained between contact frequency as independent valuables and local capability as dependent valuables. Changing connectivity at grassroots level between local governments, field agencies of the central governments and local people shall be analyzed in this paper.
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