เศรษฐศาสตร์การเมืองว่าด้วยการกำหนดนโยบายเศรษฐกิจ: กรณีศึกษาการเจรจาข้อตกลงการค้าเสรีไทย-สหรัฐอเมริการะหว่างปีพ.ศ.2544-2549 (The Political Economy of Economic Policy Formulation: A Case Study of Thailand-United States Free Trade Bargaining 2001-2006) (original) (raw)

เศรษฐศาสตร์การเมืองว่าด้วยการกำหนดนโยบายเศรษฐกิจ: กรณีศึกษาการเจรจาข้อตกลงการค้าเสรีไทย-สหรัฐอเมริการะหว่างปีพ.ศ.2544-2549 (The Political Economy of Economic Policy Formulation: A Case Study of Thailand-United States Free Trade Bargaining 2001-2006)

This thesis questions “how do the interest groups, in TUFTA negotiation during 2001-2006, strive for and carry forward their interests?” To answer the question, this thesis had constructed an investigative conceptual framework, derived from integration between the adaptation of concept of interest group and theory of agenda control. This thesis concluded that both economic and political conflicts describe the fundamental of Thai economic and political system. Moreover, these conflicts were, temporarily, promoted by TUFTA. Thai Rak Thai group and FTA Watch, both have great economic and political contradictions, fought against each other in order to gain authority to determine content of agreement by means of diminishing and expanding conflicts. Theoretically, the boundary of expanded conflicts would determine the victory of either interest group in carrying forward their interests. Nevertheless, the dissolution of parliament and coup d’état in 2006 brought an end to the TUFTA, reflected the complexity and development of conflicts between interest groups during the course of time.