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Abstract

Approximately 7 years after the 2014 coup d’état, Thailand is moving

back to democracy and had a national election on March 24, 2019. With
the decades-old political cleavages of Thai society, the authors are interested

in studying the relationships among the different political values and political
party preferences. Political values express basic personal values in the domain

of politics. It is what people believe in related to how government should operate,
whom it should serve or not serve, who pays for it, and who benefits. The

political value system is always the value system of a particular class, of
a specific stratum as an organized social force. This paper examines hypotheses

about the impact of cleavages on political values by using a public opinion survey
that was undertaken a few months before the March 2019 election. The data is

from the Asian Barometer Survey Wave V, which uses probability sampling from
eligible voters over the age of 18. The survey was conducted between December

2018 and the end of February 2019, 3 weeks before the March 24, 2019 election.
The results indicate that political cleavages clearly existed among those who

prefer different political parties, regime preference, opinion on corruption,
democracy and economic preference, satisfaction with democracy, future

expectations toward democracy, the suitability of democracy, and trust are
the significant variables that help explain this cleavage. There is also strong

partisanship between the two major parties, Democrat and Pheu Thai supporters.

Keywords: Political values, political party preference, partisanship

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