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การประหยัดจากขนาดในองค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่น
และวิเคราะห์ศักยภาพการควบรวมท้องถิ่นขนาดเล็ก

costs, belief and expectation from change (merging).
Essentially we try to understand who are “players” or
“stakeholders” – these at least cover local politicians, civil
local employers and hired local workers.
๏ From public policy analysis we learned about the process of
policy change (in this case—the proposal for local
amalgamation). Two phases of transformation has been
achieved at this stage:The policy identification and the policy
agenda—these have been driven by the National Reform
Steering Assembly. After two years of effort the issue has
become a social discussion that drawn supporting views of
opposing views against the local merge proposal. The present
phase is policy implementation which may be the most
difficult one, because there are trade-off or pros and cons to
the proposal—yet important one.

๏ From other countries’ experience we learned that there are
two options for local merge, i) compulsory amalgamation and
ii) voluntary amalgamation. In Thai context, we opt to say that
the compulsory method is difficult and risk of violation to the
Constitutional Law which specifies the term “in accordance
with peoples’ will”. Anyhow there has been at least 3 cases
of voluntary amalgamation: 2 case studies which are briefly
summarized in this study happened in the year B.E. 2553 and
B.E. 2560 — and currently 3 local units in Ubonratchathani
have propose to amalgamation and they had undergone the
process set by the Ministry of Interior in which include a
peoples’ referendum in April B.E. 2561.

Findings:

First, from cost study, it is confirmed by the unit cost tend to
decline when the local scale increases (measured by population) up to
the scale (approximately 10000 people). Two variables in our study
referred to: i) per capita staff expenditure, and ii) staff per

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