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Thailand has a long tradition of centralized government, and as such, initiating local innovation within this context is not an easy task. For more than a decade, decentralization has been a key objective of political and administrative reform in Thailand; yet even so, progress in implementing decentralization policies has been slow and inconsistent.
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Kokpol, O. (2018). People-Centric Leadership at the Local Level: Yala Municipality, Thailand. In: Hirose Nishihara, A., Matsunaga, M., Nonaka, I., Yokomichi, K. (eds) Knowledge Creation in Community Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57481-3_3
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