nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200303-215029-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200303s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200303-215029-0 doi eng 342 23 Tonsakulrungruang, Khemthong Author aut Thailand’s Obsession with Clean Politics Dismantles its Democracy Tonsakulrungruang, Khemthong Verfassungsblog 2020-03-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 democracy Judiciary Party Ban Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/thailands-obsession-with-clean-politics-dismantles-its-democracy/ raw object