The Research Of Thailand's Democratization Under "the Third Wave Of Democratization"

In recent years, Thailand's political situation appears the phenomenon of frequent turbulence in the process of democratization .Thailand became the concern object to politicians and scholars because of that. Nowadays, under the background of increasingly globalization, democratic wave of globalization has also set off a new round, which was Huntington called "the third wave of democratization". Thailand under the influence of the third wave of democratization, or go with the tide, begins the process of democratization of the country. This article is intended to make a comparison between the third wave of democratization and the two previous waves of democratization, and to come to the third wave of democratization in the scope of the previous two, characteristics, causes are different, the impact on the democratization of the countries are different. Let democratization of Thailand under the huge background of the third wave of n for research, and by means of reviewing of Thailand's democratization history process and the status to find that in the process of Thailand's democratization exists a lot of problems, such as weak social foundation of democratic, soldiers excessive intervention, excessive rely on election, lots of political parties, the low efficiency government, social instability and so on. These problem of exist has caused large of negative effect on Thailand's social economic, and political, and national image and around nationals. Problems of produced must exist certain causes, and the affect between inside and outside elements results in all the development of anything. So it make analysis from internal factors effected Thailand, such as Thailand's economic, political culture, army, political parties, rule of law, King, and so on. The research of external factor in Thailand's democratization will be discussed in the followed statement. The viewpoint of this article is that one of the most important external factors is the globalization, and it brings actively and negative aspects to Thailand. And the impact on Thailand's democratization will be elaborated from political globalization, economic globalization and spread globalization. And in accordance with the above discussion have established a "democratization of Thai" unique characteristics, such as councils of frequent unrest, military forces played a decisive role in the democratization process, civilian and military personnel on the separation, separation of politics and administration, representatives of the King as the traditional forces in the country still plays an important role in political life, regionalism color such as serious. Democratization of Thailand is still in continued. In order to promote the process of Thailand's democratization to better and as far as possible of avoid the problems that countered in the process of Thailand's democratization once in later democratization of process, several plain proposals will be put forward in this article. This article described Thailand should ensure that their rapid economic development while focusing on the balanced development of economy and establish a fair distribution of national wealth system, reducing the huge gap between urban and rural areas, on this basis to improve the quality of the national political culture, conducive to the formation of democratic of the civil society, to achieve political and economic development simultaneously and solve military intervention, to develop a broad middle-class power, a sound legal and institutional context, the establishment of a stable party system and other aspects of specific measures. Finally, according to the democratic development of Thailand's past history and the current actual situation in Thailand, the Thai way of democratization made possible the prediction. This article states that because of the specific characteristics of Thailand's socio-economic, political cultural and other aspects, Thailand should lay the economic on the priority development position. On the basis of stable development, and gradually shift to the democratic system, not at the expense of development costs to meet the needs of democracy. Continuing wave of third wave of democratization, authoritarian regimes toward democracy is the future under the road of political development in developing countries, authoritarian regimes in developing countries how to get out, smoothly towards democracy, this is one where the intention of this article. Hope that through the study of the Thailand's democratization, summed up the useful experience of democratization to developing countries. Learn the essence and discard its dross, which can help to avoid countering problems in the democratic development to the developing country. At the same time theoretically can make up some gaps in the study of democratization or missing, and further enhance the level of democratic theory.This article of innovation points are: under the large background of the third wave of democratization wave, on the basis of local research of Thailand's democratization by some predecessors, to make analysis and study in the Thailand's democratization comprehensively. And in the research of reasons of Thailand's democratization, the use of both internal and external from the perspective of the analysis, making the research more on the reasons for the thorough and comprehensive. Ultimately hope that this research can be useful to the developing countries in the later process of democratization.