Yingluck Pheu Thai — rice-pledging and amnesty-bill coup

Doctrine — stated goals and content

Pheu Thai Thaksinomics 2.0 populist-redistributive doctrine — won July 2011 election with 265 of 500 seats on signature promises: (1) rice- pledging scheme (จำนำข้าว) guaranteeing farmers THB 15,000/tonne white rice (40-50% above world prices) via government purchase; designed to withhold supply and drive global price up, but accumulated ~18 million tonnes of unsold stockpiles, corruption in disbursement, and estimated fiscal losses THB 500-700bn; (2) minimum-wage hike to THB 300/day nationwide (April 2012); (3) first-car-buyer tax rebate (2011-2012) boosting 2012-2013 auto demand then crashing it; (4) corporate-tax reduction 30% → 23% → 20% (phased 2012-2013); (5) THB 2tn infrastructure loan bill for high-speed rail and water-management, struck down by Constitutional Court March 2014. November 2011 historic floods displaced ~13m people, tested administrative capacity. Crisis trigger was the "blanket amnesty bill" November 2013 which would have cleared Thaksin's 2008 corruption convictions, sparking PDRC (People's Democratic Reform Committee, Suthep Thaugsuban) "Bangkok Shutdown" occupations. Yingluck dissolved parliament December 2013, February 2014 snap election disrupted, Constitutional Court removed her 7 May 2014 over 2011 NSC personnel transfer. 22 May 2014 military coup under General Prayut ended caretaker government. Coherence line: Thaksinomics rural-populist redistribution + corporate-tax-competitive doctrine, destroyed by amnesty-bill overreach and military intervention.