The Direction of Thai Social Policy: Toward the implementation of policies that are accepted as fair

Abstract

This article wishes to determine direction frameworks of social policies that can view a greater picture of the Thai society with problems that really and currently exist, and offer various policies that will help reduce such problems in a peaceful manner using paradigm frameworks under which problems have been applied according to

the social context that occurred pursuant to theoretical concept combining political science, political economics and sociology, which make us able to see the future directions regarding public policy formulation, to be carried out by the State, that shall be clear. In other words, once being brought to practice, their results shall be aimed at the people in a concrete manner, and that their value can be measured out into numbers with accuracy. In this connection, an importance to decrease the role of  the central administration to take over policy procedures shall be focused on, and the increment of negotiation power of the civil society to have rights, voice and access to correct information shall be highlighted, so that the civil society who is the real owner of sovereign power can feel as they jointly accept that they receive justice from this society at least. This is considered a peaceful way to address the problem in this situation through solid policies that can be compass with clear guidance, aiming its achievement at the civil society which can really be measured, and truly accepted by the civil society, such as policy on justice distribution in 3 fields: namely, 1) economic;  be they tax policy, both land and inheritance tax that shall seriously be collected from those with properties and income, or policy to support small and medium entrepreneurs so they can compete at a national level 2) political; there shall be genuine power decentralization from the central government to local administrative organizations so they can have freedom to tackle and solve local problems in their own way as much as they can and 3) social; that focuses on strengthening its welfare state. People shall be able to access the welfare in a universal and equal manner, be they education administration or even access to public healthcare system.