Quotes from the beginning of the paper:

"It is our intention to decentralize administrative and development authority to the Tambol level and this needs to be done urgently. Villagers should participate in daily democracy instead of merely exercising their rights to vote once every four years. Apart from rice-roots democracy, the scheme was also to give cash and jobs to the farmers during the lean summer months. - Boonchu Rojanasathien

"The state is incapable of guiding and supervising farmers. Nowhere has it succeeded in doing so. All decisions must be decentralized toward rural villages. Only there is true country life to be found. The village must be
transformed into a veritable development enterprise, a decision and management center. - Maurice Guernier