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The Politics and Meaning of Universal Health Care in Thailand - Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism By Joseph Harris. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2017. xiv, 268 pp. ISBN: 9781501709968 (cloth). - Democratizing Health Care: Welfare State Building in Korea and Thailand By Illan Nam. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xv, 273 pp. ISBN: 9781137537119 (cloth). - Eliciting Care: Health and Power in Northern Thailand By Bo Kyeong Seo. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. xv, 188 pp. ISBN: 9780299326906 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Erik Martinez Kuhonta*
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McGill University
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022

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1 Yi, Ilcheong, ed., Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Joel Sawat Selway, “Electoral Reform and Public Policy Outcomes in Thailand: The Politics of the 30-Baht Health Scheme,” World Politics 63, no. 1 (2011): 165–202.

3 Joseph Harris and Joel Selway, “Exchange: Explaining the Passage of Universal Healthcare in Thailand,” Journal of East Asian Studies 20, no. 1 (2020): 99–119.

4 Ariel I. Ahram, Patrick Köllner, and Rudra Sil, eds., Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

5 Hicken, Allen and Kuhonta, Erik Martinez, eds., Party System Institutionalization in Asia: Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadows of the Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)Google Scholar; Kuhonta, Erik Martinez, The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2011)Google Scholar.