Uthaisang, Pitaya (2006) Telecommunications reform programme of Thailand: institutionalism and the reform process. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

The thesis presents an empirical study of the telecommunications reform experience of Thailand between the mid 1980s and 2000s in an attempt to explain the effect of national institutional arrangements upon the reform process. This time period permits an exploration of the development of the reform as well as its major impediments in relation to three different political settings. The progress of reform on the three basic reform issues (privatisation, liberalisation, and regulation) is thoroughly examined to understand the consequences produced by different industry environments. An historical institutionalist study of the Thai experience identifies the political tensions among the reform's interested parties as well as the unwieldy political settings that were the dominant features that heavily influenced the reform story. The thesis places a special emphasis on the latest political regime (the hegemonic era) since it provided a different industry outlook compared to the previous two regimes (the bureaucratic and pluralistic eras), allowing substantial progress towards reform to be made. The telecommunications reform in Thailand is not complete. Thus, it may be too early to confirm the advantage of the strong politics on the reform in the long run, especially considering the possibilities of rent-seeking or the overuse of political power of the hegemonic govenunent. In any case, the Thai reform experience confirms that an institutionalist framework is helpful, and that institutional arrangements really matter in the policy-formation, policy-implementation and policy-outcome of a particular country.

Item Type:	Thesis or Dissertation (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Telecommunication policy -- Thailand, Public institutions -- Thailand, Privatization -- Thailand, Telecommunication -- Social aspects -- Thailand, Thailand -- Politics and government
Date:	September 2006
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Politics and International Studies
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Grant, Wyn ; Ferdinand, Peter
Sponsors:	Thailand. Ratthasaphā
Format of File:	pdf
Extent:	357 leaves : ill., charts
Language:	eng
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/2444

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