THE FACTORS AFFECTING PEOPLEIS POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN KHLONG LUANG DISTRICT PATHUM THANI PROVINCE

Abstract

Objectives of this research article were to study the levels of factors affecting, compare the levels of factors affecting and to study problems and recommendation for the people’s political participation at Klong Luang District, Patum Thani Province Conducted with the mixed research methods. The quantitative method collected data from 397 samples with questionnaires and analyzed with frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The qualitative method collected data from 9 key informants and analyzed by descriptive interpretation.

          The results of the research were found as follows 1. People had opinions on people’s political participation at Klong Luang District, by overall, at the middle level ( =3.30). 2.The results of opinion comparison was found that people with different gender, education and occupation did not have different factors affecting the political participation, rejecting the set hypothesis. The people with different ages, by overall, had different factors affecting the political participation, by statistically significant level at 0.05,  accepting the set hypothesis. 3. Recommendations: Development of people’s political participation should campaign for people’s understanding. There should be over all covered public relations, such as advance election, the voters’ names check before election, community strength creation by establishing the learning centers in the communities for people to exchange knowledge and opinions, managing government personnel and private people who have political knowledge to disseminate the knowledge, opening opportunities for people to engage in political activities with right and freedom and appropriate use of the right and voice to express their political opinions.