The Research Project for Data Processing on the Local Politicians in Singburi, Thailand
7 Pages Posted: 15 Nov 2017
Date Written: January 1, 2014
Abstract
This article has the objectives of studying the politicians who have been selected as the senate and parliament members from the past until the present time (2014). The study focuses on the background, the relationship pattern among the kindred and family network, acquaintance network, politician network of each level, the role of the political party and politicians in the province, the strategy and method for the election including analyzing the political overviews occurred in the Singburi by the qualitative method. The data are collected by the interview, participating observation in the area, and analyze the documents and evidences. The sample is drawn from the politicians, politician’s families, or close relation by specific selection. Then, the data are analyzed according to the consistency of the research objectives. The research results found that all Singburi politicians are male having the higher education than the general people, well known family background, having good status of economics and society, and having reliable personality. Since Singburi is a small province and not having any group or politic family being able to control the election base in the province. Thus, the personal factors of each election candidate are an important factor. Moreover, the assistant network from the relatives, business men, and local politicians in each level are combined to help in each election very much because Singburi is the network society that all people in the province are well familiar to each other making the candidates who comes from the more popular group will be successful in the area politic. However, the factors from the political party that the candidates are belong to have not much role in the Singburi because the assistance and the working roles of the politicians always occurred continuously in the area are important roles that the citizens pay more attention than the political party role in the area. Therefore, it shows that no candidates from the political party can be elected more than two times consecutively. The strategies and canvasses that the politicians used to raise the votes in the election comprises of giving a big speech from the political party and a small speech from the candidates in the market or community, using the motorcycle caravan by the candidate patrolling to several places, using the cars with the amplifier sparading to publicize the candidate, using the money to buy the election vote directly and indirectly, using the posters or large vinyl plate that contains the candidate portrait and the number placing along the road, intersection, bus rear, side of the tricycles, etc., and employing the election campaigners both volunteering and setting to canvass the election in many areas.
Keywords: Local Politician, Election, Singburi
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