A Study of the Relationship between Political Parties and People during Election Season A Case Study of Pheu Thai Party
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The research question of this research is how people and Pheu Thai political party interact in the policy development process. Answering this question to clarify the relationship above can be divided into four sub-points, which are 1) who are the people in the perception of the Pheu Thai Party? 2) Does Pheu Thai Party’s regulatory structure and mechanism allow people to be involved? 3) What are the practices and activities of the Party and the member involving the people? And 4) What is the level of people’s participation in the Pheu Thai’s policy development process? To be able to answer all questions, the researcher has looked at the activities that The Party claim “people” as centrepiece in the policy-making process based on the election process on March 24, 2019. To demonstrate the empirical data, the researcher attempted to collect all sources, as follows 1) Pheu Thai Party’s documents, arty regulations, ideology, policy, meeting minutes, etc. 2) The academic’s analysis and ideas from all media. 3) Monitoring of Pheu Thai Party member’s field visits and 4) Interview with eight Pheu Thai political executive members.
The results of the study revealed that the people from the viewpoint of Pheu Thai Party’s consisted of all civilians and residents of Thailand. The relationship between Pheu Thai Party and the people in policy development process depends on radical change of the political conditions after the coup on May 22, 2014 that limit the interactions between the party, the political member and the people. The relationship between Pheu Thai party and the people currently rests on an important condition: the old successful image of policy’s administrative of group of executive member who are the same groups since the Thai Rak Thai Party.
The Pheu Thai Party’s policy-building mechanism in the 2019 elections, under the legal conditions and relations with the people mentioned above, is characterized by an attempt to open various channels for public hearing. A draft and the improving of a draft of policy were created by specific working group. In the improving process, the working group has been negotiating the direction of the policy between the stakeholder, the people and the executive of the arty. However, the final policy decision-making for electoral campaigns still depends on the executive group within the party.
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