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Elite circulation, rent-seeking and rank-keeping: analytical insights from the case of Thailand

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  • Gwendoline Promsopha
  • Antoine Vion

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The role of elite coalitions, violence and social orders in the development process has recently resurfaced in economic literature. In this article, we mobilize some of the literature on elite coalition, elite circulation and institutional change and provide a framework for understanding institutional change as the result of major misalignment between rent-seeking and rank-keeping. We also analyse how lock-in systems implemented by the elite in place provoke political instability.This framework is then applied to Thailand, which has experienced political instability in the past decades. The rapid empowerment of an ascending elite provoked a major misalignment between its growing economic power and the legitimacy of the established political order, i.e. a major contradiction between a rent-seeking and a rank-keeping conception of the legitimacy of elites.

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  • Gwendoline Promsopha & Antoine Vion, 2024. "Elite circulation, rent-seeking and rank-keeping: analytical insights from the case of Thailand," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 82(4), pages 684-719, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocec:v:82:y:2024:i:4:p:684-719
    DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2023.2171099
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