Illan Nam

Illan Nam
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Colgate University · Department of Political Science

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This article examines the state's uneven capacity to deliver public social goods to the periphery. It does so through a comparative analysis of two agencies in Thailand, the Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Education, which have exhibited a marked disparity in serving rural citizens over the past twenty-five years. The author traces th...
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Did the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Party of Thailand, the first party in the country’s history to gain parliamentary dominance in 2001, represent a departure from traditional clientelistic Thai parties or was it old wine in a new bottle? This article argues that the TRT represented a new hybrid party that successfully established programmatic linkages in...
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The Thai National Health Security Act of 2002 established a universal health coverage program that extended health care to 18 million previously uninsured Thais and significantly reduced rates of medical impoverishment. This article highlights the key role that a coalition of health bureaucrats and NGOs played in achieving this outcome.
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At a time when calls for austerity are pressuring health care systems in many countries around the world and the ideal of welfare provisioning based on citizenship appears increasingly unaffordable, the Asian countries studied in this book launched milestone reforms that increased their governments’ commitments to universally accessible and redistr...
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Prior to their reforms of the 2000s, South Korea and Thailand already had in place health insurance programs that promised, at least on the books, universal coverage to their citizens. Considering that these countries began addressing in earnest the issue of health care provisioning only in the 1970s, the programs in place showcased the considerabl...
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The passage of the National Health Insurance Act in June 2000 in South Korea was the culmination of a long-fought and contentious battle waged between advocates of a single-payer scheme and those who favored a multiple insurance society system. Since the inception of the health insurance system in the 1970s, a division of opinions about the merits...
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In Chapter 2, I argued that the core members of the solidarity coalitions that advanced the health reforms legislated in the 2000s acquired their political resources as a result of participating in their countries’ democracy movements during the 1970s and 1980s. In this chapter, I trace the process by which student organizations in Thailand and Kor...
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The question at the heart of this book centers upon the timing and content of sweeping health insurance reforms legislated in South Korea and Thailand in the early 2000s. The reforms represented the fruits of long-standing battles to attain greater equity in the health care system that had been waged for years among conservative and progressive fac...
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The legislation of the National Health Security Act in 2002 was the culmination of a long-cherished dream for a group of bureaucrat-physicians in Thailand’s MoPH. For over a decade, these progressive civil servants had steadily nurtured their vision of a universal health coverage program that would deliver equal health benefits to all Thais. Althou...

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