Conflict, Legitimacy and Government Reform: Equitable Allocation of ...

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governments as it has always been used?” and “What recommendations
should there be to promote the body of knowledge on “political
legitimacy” to Thai people in a creative way that agrees with a national
democratic government under constitutional monarchy and to help push
Thai politics into a better direction. With these issues in mind, the
writer conducted a literature review on various literature and researches
to find answers for the aforementioned issues.
The writer proposes a new perspective on political legitimacy in that
it should broadly cover every sector and every part of the term “politics”.
“Political legitimacy” should not be the term used only to stimulate
creative political conscience with governments, but should also be used
with the opposition, senators, judicial organizations, statutory free
organizations, media, private development organizations, academic
professionals and society as individuals and other sectors raise the level of
“Thai political development” so political legitimacy genuinely occurs in
terms of content and process which will eventually lead to desired
political stability.
Finally, the writer recommends that there be a process for
promoting the body of knowledge on “political legitimacy” and other
important bodies of knowledge such as overall bodies of knowledge on
“politics” and on “democracy” to the public, who can be divided into 2
major groups: 1. The youth studying from kindergarten to high school
and those who are studying at the college level as well, and 2. The general
public who has already left educational facilities since adolescence,
middle age and senior adulthood.
The author believes that a clear and tangible method that can
effectively create the aforementioned processes in the two sectors of
people is the creation of a curriculum of at least three years’ duration and
the process must not be thought by memorization, but it utilize “child
centers”, “citizen dialogue” and “facilitators” as core processes because
these bodies of knowledge are not about memorization, but they are
about asking questions and collectively finding the answers wherein the
facilitator is the one who gradually takes the two sectors of public toward
the goal in order for the knowledge, realization, responsibility and
conscience of citizenship to occur genuinely.