TY - BOOK AU - Mřieau,Eugňie TI - Constitutional bricolage: Thailand's sacred monarchy vs. the rule of law T2 - Constitutionalism in Asia SN - 9781509927722 AV - KPT2064.51997 .M373 2021eb PY - 2021/// CY - London [England] PB - Hart Publishing KW - Constitutional law KW - Thailand KW - Constitutional history KW - Monarchy KW - Constitutional & administrative law KW - bicssc KW - Politics and government KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Same Same but Different: Is Thailand a Constitutional Monarchy? -- 2. A Tale of Two Controversies: The Secularization Thesis and the Possibility of Legal Transplants -- 3. Not a Blueprint for Constitutional Reform: Towards an Hermeneutics of Thai Constitutional Identity -- 4. A Constitution for the Sacred Monarchy -- 5. A Set of Legal Doctrines for the Sacred Monarchy -- 6. Practices of Sacred Monarchy -- 7. A Constitution for the Military -- 8. Legal Doctrines of Royal Military Dictatorship -- 9. Practices of Military Dictatorship under Royal Command -- 10. A Constitution for the Judiciary -- 11. A Set of Legal Doctrines for the Royal Juristocracy -- 12. Practices of Juristocracy under Royal Command -- 13. Tensions within and Contestations over Thai Constitutional Identity: A call to arms -- Annexes -- Bibliography; Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers N2 - "The book explores the unique constitutional model in operation in Thailand. Utilising the concept of 'mixed constitutional monarchy', it investigates the hybridised semi-authoritarian, semi-liberal monarchy that exists in Thailand. It goes further to show 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, as generally thought. Rather, it shows that the monarchy's use of constitutionalism is the prime driver of that instability. Drawing on materials and sources not previously available in English, this important work provides a comprehensive and critical account of the Thai 'mixed constitutional monarchy' from its origins to the present day."-- UR - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509927722?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections ER -