Pervasive Cold-War Era security architectures have a stranglehold over Thailand. Grey para-political networks in the periphery border regions, initially established in the 1950s as U.S backed anti-communist security forces, entered into parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics in the 1980s after the fall of the communist movement, since then they have come to dominate Thailand’s governance, today coalescing around the ultra-reactionary Bhumjaithai party. In short, we are living in the long cold shadow of the 1950s, of the deathsquads that it birthed and the complex webs of patronage that it developed. Thailand, and many other global south countries, suffers from being dominated by anti-communists networks which have no communists left to fight, one in which we have little to do but watch as the ultra-right cannibalise one another, while we try and find the gaps in between.
The 1950s CIA
This vast anti-communist parapolitical network can be directly traced back to the 50s when the US facilitated the Thai state in setting up a huge array of coercive anti-democratic apparatuses, some within the purview of the state, though many beyond. ¹²³
The 1950s saw Britain and France’s colonial empires crumbling. Even before the dust settled, battle lines were being drawn for the coming assault on Asian communism. To policymakers in Washington Thailand was to be the final buffer zone- a firewall against the red tide. The Kingdom fit the bill perfectly- lacking a strong domestic anti-colonial or communist movement of its own, but boasted a deeply entrenched local anti-communist coalition. It was, for all intents and purposes, the ideal staging ground for America’s assault on communism across the wider region
The U.S National Security Council began planning their warfare operations based out of Thailand. President Eisenhower approved the proposal, and the Psychological Strategy Board drew up detailed plans. The resulting draft, designated D-23 was divided into two stages. The first focused on strengthening the Thai state through propaganda, closer business and diplomatic ties with the U.S., and infrastructure development. The second stage involved building up the Thai military and paramilitary forces. The report explicitly called for efforts to “develop, expand, and accelerate to the greatest extent sound programs for the creation and employment of indigenous guerrilla and paramilitary forces.” Initially intended for self-defense, these forces were also meant to be deployed in neighboring states over the longer term, with the draft proposing to “extend programs for guerrilla and paramilitary forces composed of Thai and related groups (into Indochina).” ³
On the ground, the origins of these paramilitary units trace back to the early CIA, and specifically to William “Wild Bill” Donovan, the “father” of the CIA. In 1953, he was appointed Ambassador to Thailand. ³
Donovan’s appointment signaled the importance Washington placed on these plans. The Defense Department described his mission as preparing a strategy to intensify psychological warfare activities and build a bastion in Thailand from which operations could be launched into surrounding areas.
Donovan helped establish Thailand’s first intelligence agency, the Krom Pramuan Ratchakan Phaen-din, as well as the Border Patrol Police. The U.S. trained these units not as standard police but as military forces, setting up a camp in Korat province. By 1954, a core of 5,000 officers had graduated, along with an elite aerial unit known as PARU (Police Aerial Reinforcement Unit).
PARU and the Border Patrol Police became the kingdom’s most effective guerrilla and counter-guerrilla force, particularly active in the border regions near Laos and Burma. They conducted ground operations and built networks of local informants through existing patronage systems. Their supplies and salaries were funded by the CIA, U.S. AID, and the State Department. These units also developed civilian-based unconventional forces, beginning with the Volunteer Defense Corps, which armed and trained 120,000 loyalist civilians. ³
Stay Behind Networks
Daniele Ganser’s analysis of Europe’s covert “stay-behind” networks in NATO’s Secret Armies (2005) provides a precise structural framework for understanding how these clandestine paramilitary forces were organised and how they evolved. The Italian branch, codenamed “Gladio” is the most thoroughly documented example of this global phenomenon, and its trajectory from wartime contingency force to anti-communist weapon to criminal enterprise gives us a clear parallel to the Thai case.
Operation Gladio originated in the immediate aftermath of World War II, when Western intelligence agencies, the CIA, MI6, and NATO, established clandestine “stay-behind” armies across Western Europe. These networks were formally planned in the aftermath of WWII, with the purpose of resisting a potential Soviet invasion or communist uprising. The Italian branch was part of a broader constellation of similar operations in virtually every Western European country.
The organisational structure was highly decentralised and covert. Units were trained on remote Mediterranean islands and at unconventional warfare centers in England and the United States by Green Berets and SAS special forces. The network was armed with explosives, machine guns, and high-tech communication equipment, all hidden in underground bunkers and secret arms caches.The plan was for these units to take part in anti-Communist insurgencies following a Soviet invasion.
As the Cold War intensified, the defensive “Stay Behind” purpose of the networks gave way to offensive operations against left-wing political movements. The units were increasingly deployed against left-wing movements across NATO countries through terror attacks and political manipulation.
This shift was became known as the “strategy of tension”- a deliberate campaign of political violence, false flag terror attacks, and psychological warfare designed to discredit the left and justify the expansion of the security state. The strategy of tension manifested across Italy during the “Years of Lead” (roughly 1968–1988), a period of intense political violence marked by bombings, assassinations, and coup attempts. The goal was to create an atmosphere of fear and instability that would push the Italian public toward authoritarian solutions and away from the increasingly popular Italian Communist Party.
The third phase of Gladio’s evolution, the consolidation into criminal networks, emerged through a series of overlapping relationships between the stay-behind apparatus, right-wing extremist groups, organised crime, and shadowy elite patronage networks. ⁶
During the 1980s, this consolidated network pivoted decisively toward criminal enterprise. The Mafia, working in tandem with Gladio-linked networks, evolved into a more sophisticated organization capable of laundering money and engaging in large-scale financial crimes. The same clandestine infrastructure that had once hidden weapons for anti-communist guerrillas was repurposed for narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and political racketeering.
The development and history of the Italian networks, as well as others in Europe, has since been relatively well documented by authors like Glasner, while seemingly identical networks in countries like Thailand exist largely in the shadows. However, an insight into how such networks operated in Europe gives us a kind of map with which to traverse developments in Thailand.
Return to the 1950s
The first stage of the U.S plan for an anti-communist Thailand (D-23) was considered a rapid success. So much so that the second stage, expanding operations beyond Thailand’s borders, was already underway within the first year.
This began with a program to create paramilitary units from roughly 200,000 non-Thais, drawn from ethnic minorities in the northern highlands and border areas. As early as 1954, plans were made to send these units into Laos to fight the Vietminh & Prathet Lao.
These operations were organised by the Border Patrol Police, who went into remote villages with weapons and bags of cash. Fighters were given no uniforms and little in the way or direct command organisation from Bangkok, instead the Border Patrol Police acted as the intermediaries with these groups. ³
Drugs
Following the Chinese communist revolution in 1949, Kuomintang (KMT) units fled to Taiwan and, crucially, to the Shan hills of northern Burma. There they embedded with local elites and established themselves in the nascent opium trade, supposedly to finance a return to the mainland.¹
The CIA units based in Thailand, supported them with food, equipment and weaponry. After failed assaults into Yunnan and prolonged battles with the Red Army and Burmese military, the KMT were pushed south along the Thai-Burma-Laos border region, beginning what became known as the Golden Triangle era. ¹ ⁴
Thailand’s elites welcomed the KMT as experienced, vehemently anti-communist and unaccountable border guardians. The opium smuggling networks from the Shan hills trickled down through Thailand, providing a unique opportunity for enrichment, particularly for well organised armed groups, like those trained by the CIA.
The CIA of the 1950s and 60s was still young and under scrutiny. It couldn’t be seen to directly throw cash and weapons at overseas proxies. The solution was front companies, run by “retired” agents, to do the dirty work. The most famous was Air America, founded as a front to aid the KMT in China, pivoting to Southeast Asia after the communist takeover. The company operated a fleet of military-grade aircraft listed as civilian planes, moving Thai paramilitaries, royalist Lao soldiers, KMT units, US special forces and, later, opium.
This became the model for the CIA’s fusion of private capital and state intelligence to fund its anti-communist crusade. Groups like the Border Patrol Police, PARU and the Volunteer Defense Corps were embedded in a broad patronage network, with state institutions establishing civilian paramilitaries beneath them to avoid accountability for illegal activity, while reporting up to the elites in the police, military, crown and intelligence state. ¹ ³
The influence of the opium market continued to shape Thailand’s internal para-politics throughout the Cold War. By the 1970s, it had facilitated an intricate web of reactionary forces who were experienced, well-armed, well funded and waiting to be deployed against the coming progressive wave sweeping the kingdom. ¹²
The 1970s
It was during the 1970s that the Communist and Progressive movement in Thailand was at its peak, buoyed further by Communist victories in Vietnam and Laos. It was then that these anti-communist paramilitaries were utilised by local elites & landlords not only against communists per-se, but against peasants agitating for better working conditions and land ownership.
This was most notably seen between 1974-1975 when the Farmers Federation Thailand was at its peak in mobilising capacity; in November 1974 over 80,000 Federation protesters came from the periphery rural areas to occupy central Bangkok for 10 continuous days. The response from landlords was a mass assination campaign against FFT leadership, killing 21 high-ranking organisers during a 5 month period in 1975 severely kneecapping the movement. ²
An example of how these para-political networks operated is documented by Tyrel Habberkorn in her seminal work Getting Away with Murder in Thailand (2018). This case study in Phattalung Province (1971-72), examines a local commander of the Village Defence Forces- a state backed anti-communist militia was pressured by his superiors into staging armed encounters with non-existent communist insurgents. A local corrupt business owner, who had a contract with the local school, then utilised this localised red scare to accuse a school teacher whistleblower of having communist affiliations. The Thai military subsequently abducted and murdered the whistleblower on the pretense of his supposed communist connections. Here we can clearly see this interplay between anti-communist para-militaries, local economic elites and the Royal Thai armed forces. The example demonstrates how para-political violence was often driven by local, bottom-up collusion between these forces rather than just top-down directives. While we can lay much of the blame at organisations like the CIA, it was ultimately local elites who made best use of these networks.
Following the mass-protests of 1973 and the popular ousting of Thanom Kittikachorn, Thailand’s strategy of tension reached its peak, the networks originally developed in the 50s had since developed and expanded. Three of the most prominent paramilitary groups to emerge were: ⁵
Krathing Daeng was organised by military elites around ultra-right Colonel Sutsai, effectively his private army. Sutsai had previously overseen the CIA-backed “hill tribe army” in the north under the Communist Suppression Operations Command. The group’s foot soldiers were drawn from former soldiers, petty gangsters, and ethnic minority fighters from the north. Members were well-paid and rewarded with drinking sprees and brothel passes.
The Village Scouts were a rural-based group for landowning farmers and ultra-royalists. Funded by the monarchy, they swore allegiance to the crown and underwent military-style training, serving as intelligence assets for landowners by documenting peasant organisers’ activities. Their operations were led by Border Patrol Police chief General Suraphon, a longtime ally of King Bhumiphol.
Nawaphon was organised by wealthy capitalists and operated closely with reactionary Buddhist elements, notably the monk Kittiwuttho Bhikkhu, who famously declared that killing communists was not sinful but an act of making merit. Unlike the other groups, Nawaphon were not street thugs but elites from the bureaucracy, armed services, business, the Sangha, and the palace. A widely held theory suggests Nawaphon were a phantom group, an arm of the Thai intelligence state disguised as a typical right-wing paramilitary, and were behind the era’s more high-level assassinations and false flag operations.⁵
Emboldened by their rural successes, reactionary forces turned their attention to the weak reformist parliamentary government in Bangkok. The military, police, Sangha, bureaucracy, royalist elite and economic elites worked together to regain control of parliament through extra-parliamentary means.
On 6 October 1976, protesting students at Thammasat University were massacred by a coalition of Village Scouts, Krathing Daeng, Nawaphon, and national police units. The death toll was in the hundreds, though the exact number remains unknown. That evening, the military launched a coup, returning Thailand to the same dictatorial system of three years prior.
The Thammasat massacre and the earlier assassinations of peasant organisers served as a clear signal from the elite classes that they were willing to use lethal force against any political organising that strayed beyond acceptable boundaries.
In 1980, Order No. 66/2523 was issued by the Thai state, giving amnesty for all Communists providing they laid down their weapons and renounced their revolutionary intent. Paired with a simultaneous cutting of financial and logistical support from China, this policy effectively collapsed the Communist Party of Thailand, leaving it without external resources, suffering internal fracturing and ideological demoralisation across the rank-and-file of the party. Thousands of comrades underwent structured demobilisation bringing an end to the revolution. The order makes mention of paramilitary groups, which can be assumed in the document as armed civilians, noting that it is still their mission to “fight communism”: ภารกิจของเจ้าหน้าที่ทั้งพลเรือน ตำรวจ ทหาร ในการต่อสู้เพื่อเอาชนะคอมมิวนิสต์ มีทั้งการต่อสู้โดยใช้กำลังอาวุธ
However, once the comrades had surrendered there were no communists left to fight, but thousands of well organised well armed killers. Over the following decade, these groups became embedded in Thailand’s political-capitalist dynasties, leading to the a mafia style war of attacks and executions that continue to this day. ⁶
Consolidation
By the time the communist insurgency had been completely eradicated in 1983, these groups had spent decades building up their local fiefdoms, particularly along the border regions. They were wealthy, armed, and politically connected. They consolidated into pure mafia-style cartels and integrated themselves into what scholars call the “Network Monarchy.” Essentially, they became the shadow enforcers for big capital and establishment power- controlling both legal trade and illicit smuggling, while exploiting a massive pool of refugee labour from Myanmar and Cambodia.
While the media tends to focus on national elections, much of the real action happens at the hyper-local level. These networks thrive in hyper-local races for provincial councils, municipal seats, and district administrative posts, as well as the selection of village chiefs. These networks are typically a combination of local political dynasties (big families), police and/or military officers, bureaucrats, members of the judiciary, business owners and organised (often armed) enforcers. Network members can span more than one of these roles. For example, a member of the judiciary can own a business, or, as is often the case, a policeman can be a member of an armed group. ⁶ ⁷
The phenomenon of local elites known as Chao Por (เจ้าพ่อ) who openly span the political and criminal world has long been the subject of intrigue in Thai mass media. The term Chao Por, literally holy father, gained prominence thanks to the Thai language translation of the film The Godfather (1972). Following the communist surrender, in the 1980s intra-political-criminal violence became a clear trend. With dramatic incidents of executions including the 1981 high-profile assasination of Phiphat Rotwanitchakorn, a well known Chao Por in Chonburi province, whose armed convoy was attacked in 5 a minute high-speed shootout along a main road in broad daylight. All members of his convoy were killed including his bodyguard- who just so happened to be the local chief of police. ⁷
With the threat of organised peasants neutralised land grabs accelerated. Between 1986 and 1990, land transactions shot up by 250%. Simultaneously, the pace of Green Revolution agri-business skyrocketed. Between 1950 – 1978 there was a massive shift toward export production; upland crop acreage expanded by 618%, vastly outpacing the 68% growth in rice cultivation area. ⁹ What this means is that there were vast land clearances further entrenching the power of the rural landlord class made possible by the international market development facilitated by agencies like the Rockefeller and Ford Foundation’s the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, the International Rice Research Institute, CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) and of course the World Bank, IMF & USAID. ¹⁰
The once relatively un-marketised periphery in particular turned into massive, highly profitable plantations, laying the groundwork for the regional grey capital networks that would soon dominate provincial politics. ⁹ This expanse was further fueled by vast numbers of refugee populations along the Cambodia and Myanmar border, whose labour was particularly crucial in the boom economy of the Eastern Seaboard- widely considered the main hotspot of Chao-Por gangland activity. ⁷
Again, it is no coincidence that Thai para-state networks were deeply enmeshed in the Khmer Rouge insurgency (officially 1979-1991, realistically ongoing into the late 90’s), with the Thai state establishing highly opaque para-military apparatuses, most notably the infamous Task Force 80. These localised para-militaries operated as well armed mafias with extrajudicial impunity, overseen by the Royal Thai military, more specifically the Eastern Tigers (902 Infantry Brigade) based in Chonburi- also founded by the USA in the 1950s as a anti-communist force. The brigade, their allies in private business and local politicians used their geographic position to become fantastically wealthy, weaponising the refugee camps as logistical pipelines to funnel the illegal trafficking of aid, gems, Khmer artefacts, weapons and people. ¹¹ ¹² ¹³
Crucially, by controlling migration through the highly militarised border the para-state apparatus controlled the outflow of an undocumented, legally vulnerable, and highly disposable workforce. In 1982 the Eastern Seaboard Development Program (ESDP) was launched in three eastern provinces: Chonburi, Rayong, and Chachoengsao turning the area into the primary industrial hub of the country, much of it built off the back of Cambodian workers. This rise in hyper-exploited refugee labour served to further weaken the bargaining power of the already highly exploited Thai poor and served to rapidly enrich the illicit networks which had been operating in the region for decades.
The boom was fueled by desperate refugee populations fleeing wars in Cambodia and Myanmar. Their labour was essential to the Eastern Seaboard Development Program, launched in 1982 across Chonburi, Rayong, and Chachoengsao. Today, that industrial corridor hosts 46% of all registered Cambodian migrants—around 800,000 people. The Thai military, specifically the Eastern Tigers brigade, controlled the border. They ran the refugee camps like rackets, funneling aid, gems, antiquities, weapons, and people through opaque para-military units like the infamous Task Force 80. The more vulnerable the labour force, the higher the profits for the generals and their business partners. ¹⁵ ¹⁶
Today, that relatively small Eastern Seaboard region churns out 15-20% of Thailand’s GDP. The Eastern Tigers have held a tight grip on national politics for over a decade, and the Bhumjaithai Party, born in the Thai-Cambodia border politics currently sits in parliament.
Bhumjaithai
Bhumjaithai Party founder Newin Chidchob was a trucking magnate from Buriram, a Thai-Cambodia border province, who mastered converting provincial business networks into patronage based political machines. After the 2006 coup, he orchestrated the “Democrat switchers” that legitimised the royalist takeover of parliament. Through Bhumjaithai, he institutionalised a new formula: harnessing populist policies appealing to a mass rural base, to serve reactionary ends. This made him the ideal intermediary between Bangkok’s conservative establishment and the restive northeast- historically left-wing/communist.
The party must be viewed as a component of Thailand’s broader reactionary state apparatus. Its control of the Interior Ministry (2019–2025) allowed it to consolidate rural patronage systems while keeping them subordinate to deep state power. Through baanyai/chao por (local elite) networks- landowning dynasties, provincial business elites, and local power brokers- Bhumjaithai embedded itself within traditional structures of control, extending this model out to other provinces under the party umbrella. This is a symbiotic relationship: the local elites deliver votes for the party and Bhumjaithai serves their interests at the national level.
Buriram stands as Bhumjaithai’s spiritual and strategic heartland, a sort of laboratory where the party’s model of controlled development has been honed. Under Newin’s rule, the province was transformed into a showcase: world-class sports stadiums coexist with persistent agrarian inequality, while a cult of personality masks the entrenched power of landholding elites. ¹⁷ ¹⁸
The Village
To understand how this kind of power operates we have to look at the village level. That’s where the foundations of patronage networks and para-state violence responsible for the success of parties like Bhumjaithai become visible.
In a typical rural community, a small group of local capitalists, such as landlords, agricultural suppliers and small industry operators dominate the local economy and act as local patrons. A typical local patron will provide work for villagers, perhaps cover medical expenses, donate to weddings and funerals, allow rent to go unpaid during emergencies. But this generosity is not altruistic; it accumulates as moral debt (หนี้บุญคุณ) purchasing loyalty. The strongest fealty often comes from the poorest, those with the least margin for error. They depend on the local capitalists most heavily. This is where class tension concentrates: not between the very rich and the very poor, but between the quite poor and the quite rich.
Above the local capitalists are additional layers of capital, increasingly urbanised. At the regional level, you encounter the real centres of power, those with family names known in Bangkok. Bhumjaithai’s structure strengthens the village elites and the capitalists above them through granting them government contracts, permits, and extra-legal protections, the party then absorbs these networks into its political machinery.
When a handful of local elites control the entire local economy this, of course, extends to the elicit economy. This is where these relationships shade into mafia structures. Drug trafficking, smuggling, paid violence are pervasive. Enforcers typically emerge from the poorest class, the same individuals who express the strongest loyalty to the local cabal. The police take their cut in exchange for maintaining order, or are direct members of such networks.
If you wish to rig an election locally, the apparatus is already in place: the elite’s authority, ties to bureaucracy, and a monopoly on violence. Bhumjaithai positioned themselves at key nodes within these networks, extending from Bangkok’s elite right down to the village cabal. Their speed of expansion; from 50 MPs in 2019 to nearly 200 in 2026, is unprecedented.
This is what politicking at the village level consists of: burst pipes, debts, hospital fees, low-interest loans. A system that reproduces itself through both coercion and care. As long as that care remains the only functional safety net, the ultra-elite’s position is secured by the vanguard of a village cabal and a para-political network that may not even consciously know that it exists. ¹⁷ ¹⁸
CIA to Today
The para-state networks established by the CIA in the 1950s, the Border Patrol Police, PARU, the Village Scouts, and the KMT armies, were designed as anti-communist bulwarks which were entirely successful in wiping out the organised left. Today, they still functionally exist, they consolidated into criminal-political machines, pivoting from counterinsurgency to predatory capital accumulation, controlling lucrative trade networks, both legal and illicit, and exploiting vast refugee labour pools from Myanmar and Cambodia. This pattern mirrors Europe’s Gladio networks, where wartime stay-behind armies similarly evolved into anti-communist terror apparatuses and ultimately into mafia-linked deep-state racketeering. In Thailand, this consolidation created the infrastructure upon which contemporary reactionary politics would be built: the patronage chains, the local enforcers, and the fusion of state and criminal power that defines the provincial political landscape today.
The key link between these historical para-state groups and Bhumjaithai is the baanyai/chao-por/village elite system, the local networks that Bhumjaithai has so effectively absorbed and institutionalised. Groups like the Village Scouts and Volunteer Defense Corps were the original templates: armed, loyalist militias embedded in rural communities, operating under the protection of state authorities while enforcing elite control at the village level. Bhumjaithai has modernised this system, stripping away the overt paramilitary trappings while preserving its core function. Through the Interior Ministry, the party now controls the bureaucratic machinery that distributes state resources through these same local elites. The party’s leaders, from the Chidchob dynasty in Buriram to figures like Chada Thaiseth, are themselves products of this system: provincial strongmen who rose through patronage networks that originated in the Cold War para-state apparatus, maintaining the same fusion of legitimate state power, organised crime, and political violence that characterised the earlier era.
Today, Bhumjaithai functions as the political arm of this deep-state infrastructure, governing through a carefully calibrated system that replicates the para-state model at every level. At the village level, local capitalists exchange care and protection for loyalty and votes; a modern iteration of the neo-feudal contract that the Village Scouts once enforced through armed intimidation. The party has harnessed these historical networks, gained electoral dominance and continued the long slow suffocation of the poor of Thailand.
The counterrevolutionary infrastructure built in the 1950s, consolidated in the 1980s, and weaponised against peasant movements and student protesters, now governs Thailand, no longer relying exclusively on military dictators, but through a sophisticated political machine that has absorbed, repurposed and reproduced itself. We are living in the long cold shadow of the 1950s, of the deathsquads that it birthed and the complex webs of patronage that it developed.
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¹ The Politics of Heroin (1971) Alfred W. McCoy – Harper & Row
² Revolution Interrupted (2011) Tyrell Haberkorn – University of Wisconsin Press
³ A Special Relationship (1997) Daniel Fineman – University of Hawaii Press
⁴ Burma in Revolt (1994) Bertil Lintner – River Books
⁵ Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (2019) Walden Bello – Colombia University Press
⁶ Murder and Progress in Modern Siam (1990) Benedict Anderson – New Left Review
⁷ Money & Power in Provincial Thailand (2002) Ruth Mcvey – Silkworm Books
⁹ Land, Power and Forest Colonization in Thailand (1993) Larry Lohman – Zed Books
¹⁰ The Violence of Green Revolution (1989) Vandana Shiva – Zed Books
¹¹ Khaki Capital (2017) Various – Silkworm Books
¹² Hun Sen’s Cambodia (2019) Sebastian Strangio – Yale University Press
¹³ The Crown and the Capitalists (2019) Wasana Wongsurawat – Silkworm Books
¹⁴ Seeking Shelter – Cambodians In Thailand (1987) Various
¹⁵ Cambodian Migrant Worker Landscape Assessment (2024) Winrock International
¹⁶ Thailand’s Eastern Seaboard – A Thriving Base in Asia – (2026) Asian Insiders
¹⁷ Anutin’s victory gives the green light for grey capital in Thailand (2026) Greg Raymond – East Asia Forum
¹⁸ Political Clientelism (2021) Napon Jatusripitak (ว่าด้วยการเมืองเชิงอุปถัมภ์ในบริบทการเลือกตั้งไทย) – Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
