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Modern monarchs and democracy: Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej and Juan Carlos of Spain
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Abstract The history of democracy is typically a history of struggle against monarchs and other
such autocrats. The elevation of one person over others by virtue of blood and birth
has come to be seen as anachronistic; yet some monarchies have managed to survive
to this day. This paper a... mehr
The history of democracy is typically a history of struggle against monarchs and other
such autocrats. The elevation of one person over others by virtue of blood and birth
has come to be seen as anachronistic; yet some monarchies have managed to survive
to this day. This paper analyses two examples of the uneasy coalition between popular
sovereignty and royal leadership that is constitutional monarchy. Whereas Juan Carlos
of Spain has been described as having steered Spain away from dictatorship, Bhumibol
of Thailand has come under scrutiny for allegedly lacking a principled approach to
democracy. I argue that structural as much as personal factors influenced the ways
in which the two monarchies were legitimised – one by positively responding to the
modern aspirations of the king’s subjects, giving him a “forward legitimacy,” the
other by revitalising the king’s traditional charisma and opting for “backward legitimacy.”... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
politisches System; historische Entwicklung; politische Macht; Südostasien; Demokratie; Spanien; Thailand; Demokratisierung; Herrschaft; Legitimation; Monarchie
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Methode
deskriptive Studie
Freie Schlagwörter
1900-2010
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2012
Seitenangabe
S. 5-34
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 31 (2012) 2
ISSN
1868-4882
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung