Start with the record.
Budget analysis and legislative research involve checking what a document says, who is responsible and what remains uncertain.
Bangkok budget review ↗About & approach
I work between public decisions and the systems that make them real.
My work connects public policy, parliamentary research, Bangkok governance, campaigns and civic technology. I work with documents, public institutions and people in the places affected by decisions.
- Name
- Thanapat Thiankrachang
- Based in
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Education
- B.A. International Studies (ASEAN–China), First Class Honours
- Languages
- Thai · English
How the work connects
Evidence, institutions and everyday life.
Follow the issue into practice.
Meetings and fieldwork connect the written record with resident concerns and the responsibilities of different agencies.
Parliamentary work ↗Make it easier to examine.
Public communication and civic tools make proposals and source material easier for other people to understand and question.
Budget Close to Home ↗Notes & tools
A few distinctions worth keeping.
Short notes drawn from the work, with links to the cases behind them.
A proposed budget is not expenditure.
A draft line records what an agency proposes. Approval, procurement, payment and completion are separate stages. Budget Close to Home links the draft record to its source so readers can check what that record actually establishes.
Read about the data and its limits ↗The document page matters.
A result is easier to verify when it retains the agency, original file and page number. PDF pages and printed page numbers can differ because of cover pages. The Song Wat 2 example keeps both references visible.
Follow a source-reading example ↗Advice, drafting and authorship are different roles.
Public work is often shared. Advisory credits, joint drafting and report authorship should be described separately, and a later law should not be treated as the outcome of an earlier proposal without supporting evidence.
Read the advisory records ↗Education & research
International studies, with a local question.
B.A. International Studies (ASEAN–China), Thammasat University. First Class Honours, GPA 3.61/4.00.
Co-authored research on Shan migrants during COVID-19, presented online at the 14th International Conference on Thai Studies in 2022. The work connected qualitative research with a photographic and documentary collaboration.
Education and research record ↗