Modern Monarchs and Democracy: Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej and Juan Carlos of Spain

@article{naldi2012ModernMA,
  title={Modern Monarchs and Democracy: Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej and Juan Carlos of Spain},
  author={Serhat {\"U}naldi},
  journal={Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs},
  year={2012},
  volume={31},
  pages={34 - 5}
}
  • Serhat Ünaldi
  • Published 1 June 2012
  • Political Science
  • Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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… 
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