Thailand's Deep State, Royal Power and the Constitutional Court (1997-2015)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3986254 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eugénie Mérieau (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 445-466 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00472336.2016.1151917 |
| OpenAlex | W2294022260 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article challenges the network monarchy approach and advocates for the use of the concept of Deep State. The Deep State also has the monarchy as its keystone, but is far more institutionalised than the network monarchy accounts for. The institutionalised character of the anti-democratic alliance is best demonstrated by the recent use of courts to hamper the rise of electoral politics in a process called judicialisation of politics. This article uses exclusive material from the minutes of the 1997 and 2007 constitution-drafting assemblies to substantiate the claim that the Deep State used royalists' attempts to make the Constitutional Court a surrogate king for purposes of its own self-interested hegemonic preservation
Alliance · Constitution · Constitutional monarchy · Democracy · Hegemony · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · Computer Science · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Unique citing works | 51 |
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| Citations per year | 5,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 50 |