Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand

by Yoshinori Nishizaki

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 democracy"-a form of democracy that is characterized by the patrimonial transmission...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299338304
• ISBN13: 9780299338305
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"