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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Constitutional Bricolage: Thailands Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law by Eugenie Merieau
Exploring the unique constitutional model in operation in Thailand this book provides a comprehensive and critical account of the Thai ‘mixed constitutional monarchy’ from its origins to the present day. It investigates the hybridised semi-authoritarian semi-liberal monarchy that exists in Thailand and considers the institutionalised nature of the Thai monarchy by studying its constitutional texts in light of local doctrine. These findings challenge commonly accepted claims about Thailand arguing that any political and constitutional instability is not the result of its borrowing from Western constitutionalism but that the monarchy’s use of constitutionalism is the prime driver of instability.