Fighting for Virtue

In recent years Thailand's courts have been drawn into the middle of the country's political struggles, a process often called judicialization. This book looks closely at several key trials to ask why the judges could not bring the long-running political crisis to an end, even though they were given authority in the king's name to do exactly that.

Through these case studies, the author explains how and why the judiciary fell short of its mission. Duncan McCargo is a political scientist who writes widely on Thai and Southeast Asian politics.