Abstract:
A study of factors affecting the acceptance of local female politicians of Koh Kha sub-district municipality, Koh Kha district, Lampang province has two purposes: to study the mean level of acceptance of local female politicians of Koh Kha municipality; to study factors affecting the acceptance of local female politicians of Koh Kha sub-district municipality, Koh Kha district, Lampang province.The data collection of 369 samples selected from the population of 7 villages was made with questionnaires with a computerized package program of data descriptive analysis by percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Chi-square test value in determining the level of statistical significance at the level of 0.05
The study findings indicated that the acceptance mean level of local female politicians of Koh Kha sub-district municipality, Koh Kha district, Lampang province was concluded into the high average level of overall six aspects-that the highest was moral and ethical attributes, followed by administrative qualifications, behavioral characters, conceptual thinking attributes, and knowledge and psychological attributes, respectively.
The acceptance of moral and ethical attributes was found that the subordinates inspection and control with noncorruption and transparency were at the highest average level, and the good-governance oriented task was at the lowest average level. The acceptance mean level of administrative qualifications was found that the administrative principles of human supervision, self-manipulation, and task-based management were the highest average level. Anyway, the knowledge related to various relevant job matters was at the lowest level. In regards with the acceptance mean level of behavioral characters, it was found that the character of who did not use violence to solve problems and who was constantly monitoring work was at the highest average level, whereas, the character of who had good human relations was at the lowest average level.
The acceptance mean level of the conceptual thinking attributes was found that a political ideology was at the highest average level, but a visionary attribute was the lowest average level. The acceptance mean level of knowledge attributes was discovered that the knowledge function and modern technology process to serve people was the highest average level, but the lowest average level of this kind of attributes fell on no active people to help local administration.The acceptance value of local female politicians of Koh Kha municipality, classified by gender, age, educational attainment, occupation and social responsibilities in 5 aspects was statistically different at 0.05, except for the knowledge attributes with a Chi-square test value at 13.308a and Sig. at 0.102-that is more than Sig. 0.05 which the main hypothesis (H0) was acceptable. The minor hypothesis (H1) was rejected-that referred to personal factors of the social responsibility position and female politicians attributes. In terms of the knowledge attributes, there was no effect on the acceptance of local female politicians in Koh Kha municipality. The recommendations involved the womens encouragement and awareness of their own importance to the society by educating in understanding the attributes and characters of female politicians in their roles and duties to the society with a focus on aiming to show women the benefits of organizational change to motivate them to play a greater role in politics."