เศรษฐศาสตร์การเมืองว่าด้วยกระบวนการกำหนดนโยบายในกิจการไฟฟ้าไทย : กรณีศึกษาแผนพัฒนากำลังการผลิตไฟฟ้าของประเทศไทย พ.ศ. 2550-2564 (PDP2007) / สายรุ้ง ทองปลอน = Political economy of the power sector policy formulation in Thailand : a case study of Thailand power development plan 2007-2021 (PDP2007) / Sairung Thongplon
The objective of this thesis is to study and analyze interest groups’ struggle and bargaining process in determining power management policy from the case study of the Power Development Plan 2007-2021. (PDP2007) .The result has shown that There are two interest groups, which are government offices and technocrat in the Ministry of Energy and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) and other holding companies. Both interest groups have strong internal capability; have power over national resources and have well organizational structure; this group has economic and political. The second interest group is disagreed with PDP 2007, comprised of two groups, the first group is NGO who work in energy management issues who aim for alternative ways for manage energy, the second group is community networks who against power plant construction and hope that by joining NGO is probably help to do not have power plant in their community. The second interest group has weakness in internal capability and issues aim to achieve by two subgroups are a bit overlap, the NGO fight for PDP 2007 plan but community networks fight for having power plant in their community. Methods being used by support group and against PDP2007 group are different, the pro PDP have closed connection with policy makers, thus using rules and regulations as a tool, in contrast, the con PDP are unable to influence policy maker directly, thus enlarge this issue to public interests such as press release and seminar. The community network fight by gaining support in community and gathering in many communities to pressure government. There was an imbalance in involvement of interest groups in development of PDP2007, the pro PDP2007 group has power over policy forming. However, PDP 2007 approval is only first phase, because the fight between two interest groups is existing and as long as benefit receiving form policy is imbalance, there will be further efforts to change PDP2007.