Abstract:

ethnicity, moral economy, Buddhist economy, new elites, old elites, traditional elites, conservative elites, Thailand, religion and politics, Buddhism and politics, Monarchy, royal populism, Thaksin, sufficiency economy, traditional Thai royalists, Buddhism and development, military coup, ethnoreligious conflict, Thai moral, religious minority groups, Islam, minority groups, financial crisis, Thaksinomics, pro-Thaksinite populism, populism, Buddhist moral economy, Malay Muslims, pro-royalists, Southern Thailand, philanthropist, welfare, Buddhist welfare, Pattani, Thai Rak Thai, Yala, Narthiwat, social inequalities