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Political Corruption: Thailand’s Search for Accountability

Issue Date Fall 1991
Volume 2
Issue 4
Page Numbers 61-71
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About the Author

Catharin E. Dalpino is a resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., where she specializes in issues related to democratization in Asia. Now on leave from The Asia Foundation, she served from 1988 to 1990 as the Foundation’s representative for Thailand. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of The Asia Foundation.

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