Oblas, Peter B. 1971. “'A Very Small Part of World Affairs': Siam's Policy on Treaty Revision and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 .” JSS 59 (2): 51-xxx.

Oblas, Peter B. 1972. “Treaty Revision and the Role of the American Foreign Affairs Advisor 1909-1925 .” JSS 60 (1): 171-xxx.

Oblas, Peter Brian. 1974. “Siam's Efforts to Revise the Unequal Treaty System in the Sixth Reign (1910-1925 ).” Ph. D. dissertation, The University of Michigan. 280 pp.

Ockey, James Soren. 1992 . “Business Leaders , Gangsters , and the Middle Class : Societal Groups and Civilian Rule in Thailand.” Ph. D. dissertation, Cornell University. 463 pp.

Ockey, James. 1993. “Capital accumulation by other means: provincial crime , corruption , and the bureaucratic polity .” Paper, 5th International Conference on Thai Studies - SOAS, London, 1993.

Ockey, Jim. 1993. “ Chaopho : Capital Accumulation and Social Welfare in Thailand.” Crossroads 8 (1): 48-77.

Ockey, James 1994. “Political Parties , Factions , and Corruption in Thailand.” Modern Asian Studies 28 (2): 251-277.

Ockey, James. 1996. “Thai Society and Patterns of Political Leadership .” Asian Survey 36 (4): 345-360.

This article is about the changing leadership style of Prime Ministers from 1932-1995 (they are listed in a useful table). Ockey uses Mulder's distinction between khunna (moral goodness), supplemented by phudi (good person), and decha (power), supplemented by nakleng (tough guy). He hypothesizes a shift in what people consider good and exemplary from the decha / nakleng -type leader to the one who has khunna and is a phudi . This shift is said to be stronger in Bangkok than in the provinces where new-type naklengs (Banharn) need to complement decha with generosity to gain approval. The amount of what appears to be speculative culturalist interpretation makes reading this article hard work, and one may overlook elements that are well worth to be considered more substantially. A statement on the respective influence of political structure , political culture (the author's core concept), and personality on leadership selection would have been helpful. Numerous patron-client references are made without exploring the vital importance of cliques ( phak phuak ), although “factional strife”, “loyalty to his (the nakleng's ) own group”, and “factions ” are mentioned once each in passing. And that nakleng -type politicians face problems maintaining their power may be less attributable to a decline of patron-client networks as such and more to a change in political structure (increased functional differentiation , perhaps: the author mentiones professionalization ) that implies a different mechanism of leadership selection making such people increasingly obsolete. Finally, to portrait Chartchai Choonhavan as a morally good person loved by the people (presumably because he does not fit into the two categories easily but is certainly not a nakleng in the author's sense) who was nastely ousted by a military deprived of spoils interprets reality a little too liberally (this view is toned down later in the article, though).

Ockey, James. 1997 . “Thailand: The Crafting of Democracy .” In Southeast Asian Affairs 1997 , pp. 301-316. Singapore: ISEAS.

It is quite surprising to come across a political scientist writing a na?ve sentence such as the first of this article, “In 1932, Thailand chose to follow the democratic path, and while there have been many detours and obstructions along the way, the crafting of a Thai democracy has remained the ultimate goal.”

Ockey, James. 1996 . “Eviction and Changing Patterns of Leadership in Bangkok Slum Communities.” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars xx (2): 46-61.

Ockey, James. 1997 . “Weapons of the Urban Weak: Democracy and Resistance to Eviction in Bangkok Slum Communities .” Sojourn 12 (1): 1-25.

Ockey, James. 1998 . “Crime, Society, and Politics in Thailand.” In Gangsters, Democracy, and the State in Southeast Asia , ed. Carl A. Trocki, pp. 39-53. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program.

Ockey, Jim. 1999 . “Creating the Thai Middle Class .” In Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia , ed. by Michael Pinches, pp. 230-250. London and New York: Routledge.