Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-283) and index.
หมายเหตุสารบัญ
1. Family Rule in the Thai Parliament : An Overview -- 2. Old Families Die Hard -- 3. Sprawling Network Monarchy -- 4. Ironies of Political Reforms -- 5. The Royalist Regime Out on a Limb -- 6. Thailand's Dynastic Democracy in Comparative Perspective
สาระสังเขป
The political history of Thailand since the overthrow of absolute monarchy in 1932 has conventionally been interpreted as a long series of popular struggles for representative democracy and against military authoritarian rule. Yoshinori Nishizaki argues that this history can be better understood as one of struggles by elite political families for and against dynastic democracya form of democracy that is characterized by the patrimonial transmission of power between members of select ruling families. Dynastic Democracy suggests it is these familial-based contestations for political ascendancy that underlie the tumultuous politics of Thailand, a country that has experienced no fewer than twenty-two coups over the course of the past century.
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