02814nam 2200505I 450 991049457010332120230621140801.00-472-90267-90-472-12856-610.3998/mpub.11666233(CKB)4100000011759698(MiAaPQ)EBC6473948(OCoLC)1226085453(MdBmJHUP)musev2_94844(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71786(MiU)10.3998/mpub.11666233(EXLCZ)99410000001175969820201208h20212021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOpposing democracy in the digital age the Yellow Shirts in Thailand /Aim SinpengAnn Arbor, Michigan :University of Michigan Press,2021.©20211 online resource (271 pages) illustrationsWeiser Center for Emerging Democracies0-472-03848-6 0-472-13235-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and index.Opposing democracy -- Crises and coups -- The origins of the Yellow Shirts -- Democratic breakdown -- Social media and the new antidemocrats -- Crowdsourcing dictatorship.Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age is about why ordinary people in a democratizing state oppose democracy and how they leverage both traditional and social media to do so. Aim Sinpeng focuses on the people behind popular, large-scale anti-democratic movements that helped bring down democracy in 2006 and 2014 in Thailand. The yellow shirts (PAD--People's Alliance for Democracy) that are the focus of the book are anti-democratic movements grown out of democratic periods in Thailand, but became the catalyst for the country's democratic breakdown. Why, when, and how supporters of these movements mobilize offline and online to bring down democracy are some of the key questions that Sinpeng answers. While the book primarily uses a qualitative methodological approach, it also uses several quantitative tools to analyze social media data in the later chapters. This is also one of the few studies in the field of regime transition that focuses on anti-democratic mobilization and takes the role of social media seriously.Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies series.DemocracyThailandThailandPolitics and government21st centuryDemocracy322.4/209593Sinpeng Aim1983-920562EYMEYMBOOK9910494570103321Opposing democracy in the digital age2064724UNINA