The Political Participation of People in Krathumbaen Municipality, Samut Sakhon Province

Abstract

The objective of this research was to study the political participation of people in Krathumbaen Munici-pality, Samut Sakhon Province. The subjects were 370 people, selected by using the Table of Krejcie & Morgan and simple random sampling, respectively. The research instrument used for collecting the data was a 3 part questionnaire including check list, rating scale, and open form with its reliability at .8380. The statistics used to analyze the data were percentage, mean and standard deviation. The results were as follows: 1. The political participation of people Krathumbaen Municipality, Samut Sakhon Province as a whole was at low level. When considering in each aspect, it was found that the aspects of “Election” was at moderate level; whereas “Applying for election or being community committees” was at least level. In addition the aspects of “Information acknowledgement and broadcasting”, “Campaign for votes”, “Attending the meeting or congregating of community” and “Political party members” were at low levels. 2. The suggestions were that : 1) the political party separation had an effect on the community unity; 2) the declaration of cheating of election was inconvenient; 3) the chiefs of villages were not neu-tral in politics; and 4) the public relation providing to people about their rights under the democratic sys-tem was facilitated, respectively.