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Informal Organization: a New Dimension of a Social Development Concept to Steer Public Policy

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Auschala Chalayonnavin

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This article presents the current public sphere which has been filed with hopes of the citizens demanding their government to meet society’s aspiration. However, the mechanism of a formal public sphere can be too complex to meet the citizen’s needs in a timely fashion. This study, therefore, explores whether informal organizations can be served as an intervention to supplement an unsatisfactory formal mechanism and whether they can be part of a citizenship development process to steer public policy by participatory democracy.

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Community development, Public participation, Informal organization