The Influences of Political Utility Affecting the Democratic Political Decision, Central Northeast, Thailand

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            This research aimed to (1) study and synthesize the concept of political utility and form of political decision on the democracy way of life, (2) study the political utility accessing and the forms of democratic political decision of people, (3) study the influence of political utility affecting the democratic political decision, (4) synthesize the model of influence of political utility affecting the democratic political decision, (5) study the approach for applying the influence of political utility and the democratic political decision, and (6) establish the development model of the democratic political decision. The sample was 563 people living in Roi-et, Khonkhean, Mahasarakham and Kalasin provinces, Central Northeast, Thailand; they were selected by multi-stage sampling. The instruments for collecting data were the documentary analysis, the questionnaire and the interview. Statistics were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, median, interquartile range, multiple linear regression analysis. The qualitative data was analyzed by the content analysis. The research results were found as follows;

            1. The political utility is the external stimulation which is given value by individual and caused by political events that influence political behavior. It could explain with 4 theories; (1) Deterministic theory; the social grouping and the fashion stream, (2) Psychology theory; the relationship and the faith, (3) Exchange theory; the basic necessities, the life safety, the recognition, the acclaimed, and the self-assertion, (4) Consciously rational theory; the politician ability, the policy of political parties, the policy effectiveness, and the political ideology.

            2. The democratic political decision is to take part in any action of democratic political activity, which can be classified for 3 forms; the political observant, the political participant and the political partnership.

            3. The political utility accessing for applying the democratic political decision of people was ranked from highest to lowest; the political utility based on the deterministic theory, the consciously rational theory, the psychology theory, and the exchange theory respectively.

            4. Form of democratic political decision as overall was at low level, ranking from highest to lowest; the political observant, the political participant and the political partnership respectively.

            5. The influence of political utility affecting the democratic political decision were; the political ideology (b=.216), the fashion stream (b=.198), the social grouping (b=.186), the policy effectiveness (b=.153), the self-assertion (b=.123), the politician ability (b=.105), the recognition (b=.089), and the policy of political parties (b=.088), there was 0.529 of multiple correlation coefficient and could jointly predict the democratic political decision for 28.00% by statistical significant at 0.01 with ±0.724 of standard error of prediction (F =16.267 ; p-value = 0.001).

            6. The improve result of the influence of political utility affecting the democratic political decision was found factors influence the political decisions in the political partnership were; the political participant being (b=.665), the political observant being (b= .178), the deterministic theory base (b= .178), the psychology theory base (b=.156), and the consciously rational theory base (b=.105), there was 0.865 of multiple correlation coefficient and could jointly predict the political decisions in the political partnership for 74.80% by statistical significant at 0.01 with ±0.54385 of standard error of prediction (F = 272.70 ; p-value = 0.001).

            7.    Approach for applying the political utility and the democratic political decision caused to establish the development model of political decisions in the political partnership which consist of; (1) political participatory development, (2) the political interested promotion, (3) the democracy family strengthening (political groups), (3) promoting for faith in democracy, and (4) strengthening the democratic assumptions political economy (edible democratic).