THAI PUBLIC SERVICE IN RELATION OF RHODES’S GOVERNANCE APPROACH

บทคัดย่อ

This study presents a discussion of the approach of governance as the term came to be used since the 1980s and the 1990s and the way to employ the concept of governance which has been adapted from Rhodes (1996 and 2017) by concerning only five separated uses of ‘governance’ and how to implement them in terms of Thai public service by including:  1) as the minimal state 2) as corporate governance 3) as the new public management 4) as good governance 5) as self-organizing network. In sum, the analysis with Rhodes’s governance approach in terms of Thai public service is founded that despite how much the world has changed, the central government still plays a crucial role in maintaining control over and managing public services in Thai public administration system.