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The Role of Thai Women in Local Development |
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| Creator | Atchara Sakrajai, Ed. D. |
| Title | The Role of Thai Women in Local Development |
| Publisher | National Research Council of Thailand |
| Publication Year | 2561 |
| Journal Title | SOCIAL SCIENCE ASIA : Official Journal of National Research Council of Thailand in conjunction with the College of Local Administration Khon Kaen University |
| Journal Vol. | 4 |
| Journal No. | 2 |
| Page no. | 51 |
| Keyword | The Role, Thai Women, Women, Local Development |
| URL Website | http://e-journal.nrct.go.th/ |
| Website title | e-journal |
| ISSN | 2229-2608 |
| Abstract | Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, is only a recent and dramatic example of a phenomenon that is sweeping the world today: the push for political decentralization. After some eight centuries of increasing political centralization, a tide has turned. European movements to build the modern state can be traced to the 12th century. Then the Western imperialist thrust of the 16th-19th centuries brought the modern politically centralized state to the rest of the world. More recently we have seen attempts to build more centralized multistate systems, weakly in the League of Nations and United Nations and more strongly in the European Union. That movement now appears to have generated a counter movement. Today we see everywhere strong movements to decentralize political power and to bring more authority and responsibility back to local government.This raises the profound and challenging question of what local governments can do and are positioned to do. The cases in this issue are an important response to that many-sided question. The articles in this issue consist of two groups. The first seven articles examine local leaders in six Southeast Asian countries that have identified a problem, created an intervention to address that problem, and either had a successful outcome or learned valuable lessons.4 The second group consists of two additional cases from Japan and Thailand, structured using a different format, and provide further compelling examples of initiatives at local levels.Community Development |
