The Voting for Political Leaders in Southeast Asia : A Case of Thailand

Authors

  • Paithoon Bhothisawang

Keywords:

political leader, the voting, democracy, stepwise multiple regression analysis

Abstract

Thailand is located in Southeast Asia Thailand s democracy was still struggling that is a military coup by the loop 13 times The last time was on May 22 2014 Every time a new constitution to allow more democratic and promised to reelection soon Elections in Thailand are interesting The purpose of this research is to determine the factors that influence the election of political leaders in Thailand then create a mathematical equation to know what the votes are derived from and how important are each of them A total of 1522 samples from the four constituencies were randomly sampled In the North 423 are sampled of member of parliaments MPs election In the Central are 373 sampled of Mayor election In the Northeastern region are 322 sampled of village headman election and in the Southern part of the constituency is the Head of the Sub-district Administrative Organization SAO are 404 sample By using Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis The research found that the most influential factors in getting the most votes and winning the election are political campaigns and tactics Second political affiliations or political parties grouppolicy Party Group Third Relief Aid and Patronage Patronage and finally the distribution of wealth and money Money Statistically significant at the 05 level It is considered that these factors are differently down the hierarchy This can be written as an equation as Obtaining the vote 1 33 54 37 Campaign 23 Party Group - 12 Patronage 09Money Factors that did not affect the voting result were statistically significant at the 05 level and not according to hypothesis that was set are Personal Qualification of Candidates Personal Donation to the community and the public Donation And gambling fraud and bribery Fraud The suggestion for this research is the agency responsible for the election should find ways to prevent the distribution of political capital to political people to gain more votes Polit

How to Cite

Paithoon Bhothisawang. (2018). The Voting for Political Leaders in Southeast Asia : A Case of Thailand. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 18(F1), 9–22. Retrieved from https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/2524

The Voting for Political Leaders in Southeast Asia : A Case of Thailand

Published

2018-01-15