Cover -- Political Change in Thailand -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Preface and a note on the text -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Power, oppositions and democratisation -- 2 Power in transition: Thailand in the 1990s -- 3 Old soldiers never die, they are just bypassed: The military, bureaucracy and globalisation -- 4 The monarchy and democratisation -- 5 Withering centre, flourishing margins: Buddhism's changing political roles -- 6 More of the same? Politics and business, 1987-96 -- 7 Thailand's political parties: Real, authentic and actual -- 8 Electoral politics: Commercialisation and exclusion -- 9 Local bureaucrats, power and participation: A study of two village schools in the Northeast -- 10 Locating working-class power -- 11 The politics of environment: Opposition and legitimacy -- 12 Non-governmental development organisations: Empowerment and environment -- 13 Thailand's media: Whose watchdog? -- 14 The Thai medical profession and political activism -- 15 The changing role of provincial business in the Thai political economy -- Notes -- References -- Index.