http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200303-215029-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/thailands-obsession-with-clean-politics-dismantles-its-democracy/ Thailand’s Obsession with Clean Politics Dismantles its Democracy Tonsakulrungruang, Khemthong eng 2020-03-03 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 democracy Judiciary Party Ban Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 On 21 February, the already fragile Thai democracy became even more vulnerable as the Constitutional Court dissolved the Future Forward Party, the third largest party and the most active opposition against the government of Prayuth Chan-ocha. This case is the latest in the series of judicial overreach in Thailand. The phenomenon is being fueled by the unhealthy obsession of building clean politics which yields an opposite result.