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<journal-title>Global Journal of Human-Social Science - F: Political Science</journal-title>
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<issn publication-format="print">0975-587X</issn>
<issn publication-format="electronic">2249-460X</issn>
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<article-title>The Voting for Political Leaders in Southeast Asia : A Case of Thailand</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bhothisawang</surname><given-names>Paithoon</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" />
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<aff id="aff1">THAILAND, Burapha University</aff>
<pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-01-15">
<day>15</day>
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<year>2018</year>
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<volume>18</volume>
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<abstract><p>Thailand is located in Southeast Asia. Thailand&#039;s democracy was still struggling that is a military coup by the loop 13 times. The last time was on May 22, 2014.Every time a new constitution to allow more democratic and promised to reelection soon. Elections in Thailand are interesting. The purpose of this research is to determine the factors that influence the election of political leaders in Thailand then create a mathematical equation to know what the votes are derived from and how important are each of them? A total of 1522 samples from the four constituencies were randomly sampled. In the North, 423 are sampled of member of parliaments(MPs) election, In the Central are 373 sampled of Mayor election, In the Northeastern region, are 322 sampled of village headman election and in the Southern part of the constituency is the Head of the Sub-district Administrative Organization(SAO) are 404 sample. By using “Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis” The research found that the most influential factors in getting the most votes and winning the election are political campaigns and tactics. Second, political affiliations or political parties, grouppolicy (Party, Group).Third, Relief Aid and Patronage (Patronage) and finally, the distribution of wealth and money (Money). Statistically significant at the .05 level. It is considered that these factors are differently down the hierarchy. This can be written as an equation as Obtaining the vote 1 = 33.54 + .37 Campaign +.23 Party, Group - .12 Patronage + .09Money. Factors that did not affect the voting result were statistically significant at the .05 level and not according to hypothesis that was set are Personal Qualification of Candidates (Personal), Donation to the community and the public (Donation) And gambling fraud and bribery (Fraud). The suggestion for this research is the agency responsible for the election should find ways to prevent the distribution of political capital to political people to gain more votes. Polit</p></abstract>
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<p>Thailand is located in Southeast Asia. Thailand&#039;s democracy was still struggling that is a military coup by the loop 13 times. The last time was on May 22, 2014.Every time a new constitution to allow more democratic and promised to reelection soon. Elections in Thailand are interesting. The purpose of this research is to determine the factors that influence the election of political leaders in Thailand then create a mathematical equation to know what the votes are derived from and how important are each of them? A total of 1522 samples from the four constituencies were randomly sampled. In the North, 423 are sampled of member of parliaments(MPs) election, In the Central are 373 sampled of Mayor election, In the Northeastern region, are 322 sampled of village headman election and in the Southern part of the constituency is the Head of the Sub-district Administrative Organization(SAO) are 404 sample. By using “Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis” The research found that the most influential factors in getting the most votes and winning the election are political campaigns and tactics. Second, political affiliations or political parties, grouppolicy (Party, Group).Third, Relief Aid and Patronage (Patronage) and finally, the distribution of wealth and money (Money). Statistically significant at the .05 level. It is considered that these factors are differently down the hierarchy. This can be written as an equation as Obtaining the vote 1 = 33.54 + .37 Campaign +.23 Party, Group - .12 Patronage + .09Money. Factors that did not affect the voting result were statistically significant at the .05 level and not according to hypothesis that was set are Personal Qualification of Candidates (Personal), Donation to the community and the public (Donation) And gambling fraud and bribery (Fraud). The suggestion for this research is the agency responsible for the election should find ways to prevent the distribution of political capital to political people to gain more votes. Polit</p>
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