THE ADMINISTRATION OF THAILAND’S LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION TO ELIMINATE CORRUPTION: A CASE STUDY OF THE PROTOTYPE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION FOR CORRUPTION PREVENTION

Abstract

The purposes of this exploratory research study were to examine administrative principles and methods, and to study factors contributing to the success of administering local government organizations to eliminate corruption. The data were collected from 47 internal and external stakeholders, comprising 3 cases of the prototype of local government organizations for corruption prevention on phase 1 (A.D. 2013-2016).  A typological analysis technique was used to classify and group the data. In addition, an inductive method was used to develop principles that derived from summarizing the main points.

The results of the study revealed that there were four core principles for administering local government organizations to make them corruption-free.  These included the principles of accountability, organizational leading, participation, and transparency. Also, there were 7 additional rules which included the rules of ethics and morals, sufficiency philosophy, rule of law, efficiency and effectiveness, responsiveness, check and balance, and networking.  It was important that local government organizations had to implement these aforementioned principles, together with 11 administrative aspects. These comprised leadership of administrators, awareness and realization of every sector, personnel administration, finance and budgetary, purchasing, income collection, information openness, locality, public service, check and balance, and anti-corruption network. Finally, based on the results of this study, it was shown that there were many factors contributing to the success of administering local government organizations that made them corruption-free.  These included the administrators’ responsibilities for their duties, local administrative staff, community leaders, mass communication, political culture with checking and balancing each other, and adequate time for implementation.