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Author McCargo, Duncan, author.

Title Fighting for virtue : justice and politics in Thailand / Duncan McCargo
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages)
Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Contents Introduction : legalism and the revival of treason -- Privileged caste? -- Bench and throne -- Challenges to the judiciary -- Against the crown? -- Computer compassings -- Against the state -- Crimes of Thaksin -- Courting constitutionalism -- Conclusion : the trouble is politics
Summary "Offers an analysis of the recent era of "judicialization," using close scrutiny of some key trials to explain how and why Thailand's judges proved unable to resolve the country's longstanding political crisis, despite their royal mandate to do so"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2020)
Subject Political questions and judicial power -- Thailand
Judicial power -- Thailand
Judges -- Thailand
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian
Judges
Judicial power
Political questions and judicial power
Politics and government
SUBJECT Thailand -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject Thailand
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019018382
ISBN 9781501709586
1501709585
9781501712227
1501712225