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Holding public procurement socially accountable: The adoption of the integrity pact approach and the role of the independent observers
Dhiyathad Prateeppornnarong (2021-08-17)
Having been introduced in 2015 by the efforts of the elite-backed civil society organization – the Anti-Corruption Organization of Thailand (ACT) – the Integrity Pact (IP) approach, calling for citizen engagement in exacting accountability in the public procurement system, is claimed to have been producing promising results for prevention of corruption in Thailand’s public procurement. This paper critically explores the IP approach adopted in Thailand with a particular emphasis on the role of the Independent Observers (IOs). The objectives are threefold: to examine the arrangements of Thailand’s IP approach and the IOs; to identify the contribution of the IP approach to the prevention of corruption in Thailand’s public procurement; and to investigate fundamental challenges the IP approach and the IOs face. The findings demonstrate that the IP approach is an effective means for ensuring citizen engagement in exacting public accountability and prevention of corruption in public procurement. However, they also highlight the key challenges of effective implementation of the approach including politicization of the IOs, the exclusion of the IOs in the drafting of Terms of Reference (TOR) and the officials’ misconceptions about the IOs.
Cities and sustainability: Exploring contributions, opportunities and challenges of smart city implementation towards social sustainability
Dhiyathad Prateeppornnarong (2025-03)
The past few decades have witnessed the smart city concept's worldwide popularity as the way forward for struggling with urban issues and challenges, bringing about sustainability of cities. Smart city implementation, however, has been researched chiefly within the context of major cities where the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and connectivity is readily available and reliable. In contrast, little was known of smart city implementation in many other fast-growing secondary cities. Drawing from the concept of social sustainability, this research seeks to explore contributions, opportunities and challenges of smart city implementation towards social sustainability of secondary cities in developing countries, using Udon Thani – a fast-growing secondary city of upper northeastern Thailand – as a research context. Grounded in 42 in-depth interviews, the findings show that smart city implementation contributes to social sustainability of Udon Thani in terms of enhancing the safety of the public, the provision of public services and offering opportunities for building a better urban society. Nevertheless, low public awareness of smart city development, inadequate collaboration between different sectors in the locality, and a lack of a smart city plan are posing significant challenges to smart city implementation, reflecting that the development of a smart city project in Udon Thani is not based on a holistic approach; hence, the implementation of the project is decidedly patchy. This research argues that the achievement of smart city implementation relies upon a holistic and multidimensional approach, taking into account integrated urban planning, cross-sector collaboration, marketing campaign strategies and the identification of context-specific instruments.
Governance through regulation: Assessing the contribution of a regulatory framework towards the quality of social enterprise governance
Dhiyathad Prateeppornnarong (2025-07-26)
The governance of social enterprises through a specific regulatory framework is one of the modes of social enterprise governance. This research paper seeks to investigate the regulatory framework for social enterprises in Thailand, answering to what extent does the existing regulatory framework contribute to the quality of social enterprise governance in the country? Through the adoption of the qualitative approach, promotion of social enterprises and mitigation of mission drift are determined as the core themes of the findings whereas the institionalisation of the social enterprise ecosystem, access to funding, the certification of social enterprises, the distribution of net profit, and social impact measurement are the relevant sub-themes. Based on the findings, it is argued that the existing regulatory framework for social enterprises contributes towards the quality of Thailand’s social enterprise governance to a limited extent due to regulatory failure. Regulatory reforms of the existing framework are therefore recommended with an emphasis on a lessening of the intensity of regulation on entry, modifications of a distributable profit cap and strengthening regulatory capacity of the regulatory bodies.
The taxonomy of development in Vietnam during 2012-2015
Han Nu Ngoc Ton; Prapon Sahapattana (Inderscience Publishers, 2022)
The research classifies different developmental levels in Vietnam provinces. The secondary data was collected in the form of panel data from 63 Vietnamese provinces during 2012-2015. Factor analysis and cluster analysis were used to verify the conceptual framework of development and build multidimensional taxonomy of development, respectively. The study found four developmental clusters with their main characteristics. Cluster 1 focused on the national earnings and had an enormous impact on national economic growth. The emergence of good governance to improve institutional environments appeared in Cluster 2 with new industrialisation. Developmental transition was recorded in Vietnam, including the Ha Noi capital and remarkable development in Thai Nguyen province. The main contribution of this study is the classification of different developmental levels in Vietnam. These different developmental levels would be used for further analysis in causal research to find significant causal impacts. New avenue for further research should focus on sustainability, foreign investments and innovation capacities.
The relationships between police performance and public confidence: a case study of Thailand
Prapon Sahapattana; Sutham Cobkit (Routledge, 2016)
There have been very few empirical studies conducted in Thailand on public confidence in the Thai police. Most studies on this topic in Thailand are descriptive and have been done only as part of the organization’s annual reports. The results of this study were from a national survey of 9900 Thai people. The study examined the correlations between various factors and public attitudes toward their confidence in police. Of the four categories (demographic, contextual, contact with the police, and attitudes toward police performance), the study’s findings revealed the attitudes toward crime suppression and toward crime prevention, in that order, had the strongest correlations with confidence attitudes in police.
The police station service quality: a comparative study of the areas in the South of Thailand
Prapon Sahapattana; Sutham Cheurprakobkit (2019)
Routine attacks and killings targeted at soldiers, police officers, and local citizens have been going on in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand (Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat) for over a decade. Although the root cause of the insurgency is still unknown, religion and secession were pointed out by many political analysts. The objective of this study is to find out empirically how different Muslims and Buddhists perceived service quality they received from the police. Data were collected from 540 people who came to police stations for services. Service quality was measured in five dimensions: tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy. The results of this study reveal that, in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand, Muslims perceived higher service quality from the police than Buddhists.

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