How cultural and organizational conditions impact on policy entrepreneurship: evidence from Thailand

ABSTRACT

Kingdon's framework has limited power to explain policy changes in the Global South. By investigating Thai cases, cultural and organisational conditions are found to play an important role in creating opportunities for policy entrepreneurship and in the successful formation and implementation of inter-local collaboration policy. The strong hierarchical social system prevalent in Thai culture caused the mayors of powerful councils to perceive themselves as the benevolent brother, with a responsibility to help those with limited resources to enhance their service-delivery capabilities. Hence, they played entrepreneurial roles to form collaboration. Then, they play managerial roles to sustain and push forward it.

KEYWORDS:

• Multiple streams framework
• policy entrepreneur
• inter-local collaboration
• Thailand

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Thailand Research Fund under Grant No. RDG6140051.

Notes on contributors

Pobsook Chamchong

Pobsook Chamchong is a lecturer at School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University. She obtained her PhD in Local Government and Public Policy from the University of Birmingham, UK. Her current research interests include local government collaboration and amalgamation, public policy and local governance, and innovative city.