ABSTRACT

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the political participation of people in the Rongkhum sub district municipality, Rongkhum district, Kalasin province 2) to compare the political participation of people in the Rongkhum sub district municipality, Rongkhum district, Kalasin province, classified  into personal factor and 3) to study problem, solution and suggestion of the political participation of people in the Rongkhum sub district municipality, Rongkhum district, Kalasin province. This research was the mixed research both quantitative and qualitative research. The sampling were consisted of 375 residents from the people who live in the Rongkhum sub district municipality by cluster sampling using the questionnaire as the tool to collect the data by finding frequency, percentages, Mean, and Standard deviation for describing and testing hypotheses by T-test, F-test and One way ANOVA. The test of the differences Means in each pair was done by the Least Significants Difference: LSD.

The qualitative research method identified the 7-key informants and selected by expert. The tool to collect the data are structured in-depth interview, in-depth  and descriptive interpretation.

The research findings were as follows:

1. The political participation of people in the Rongkhum sub district municipality, Rongkhum district, Kalasin province  was overall opinion in maximum level (=3.50), and considered in each field by arranging follow by the acknowledge of politics (=3.73) was in maximum level, the participation of election (=3.65), and referendum and public hearing (=3.18) i was in medium level respectively.

2. The opinion compared on the political participation of people in the Rongkhum sub district municipality, Rongkhum district, Kalasin province  classified into personal factor. We found that people in different sex and career have political participation in the Rongkhum sub district municipality, Rongkhum district, Kalasin province was overall opinion not much differences. So, we disapproved the hypothesis. But people in different age, educational background and income was overall opinion much differences, so we accepted the hypothesis.

3. Problem and obstacle of the political participation of people in the Rongkhum sub district municipality, Rongkhum district, Kalasin province, it was found that Most people did not know about the political news enough and in their villages did not have the center to spreading the news. People lacked of knowledge and understanding about the political participation activities and people were not the member of the political groups or political party. People did not recognize and did not know how important of their voices and rights in the election. People had not much opinion to plan about the project and activities in community for set up the developed ways and the management to the problem of the administration of sub district municipality because the sub district municipality made not much public hearing.

The suggestions, it was found that the sub district municipality should have activities and campaign to make the understanding to the people, set up the media to publicize to the people, should support the political participation of people, should support to set up and cooperate the political groups, add the information about the election to the people to recognize their voice, the sub district municipality should give the opportunity  to the people to administrate the projects for presenting the problem and work together to finding the solution and present them to the sub district municipality for providing the budget to improve the problem better and should listen to the different opinion for finding the problem solution.

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