During electoral campaigns in new democracies, parties and candidates often employ clientelist strategies such as vote buying to mobilize electoral support. The academic consensus is that when voters are offered gifts or money in exchange for their votes, it has detrimental consequences for...

Introduction, inequality and oligarchy / Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker -- Concentration of land and other wealth in Thailand / Duangmanee Laovakul -- Inequality in education and wages / Dilaka Lathapipat -- Inequality, the capital market and political stocks / Sarinee Achavanuntakul,...

"Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of thinking and writing about economic orders. These attempts have led to their re-engagement with...