Fighting for Virtue

Anyone who has taken any interest in the politics of Thailand at all in the last two decades could not help but have noticed the part that the country’s judiciary has played in them. Whereas before the 2000s the courts had at best a peripheral role in political life there, in recent years judges have at times weighed in dramatically on high-stakes conflicts. The causes and consequences of these judicial interventions are the subjects of a new book by NYSEAN’s Duncan McCargo, Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand (Cornell University Press, 2019).

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