ABSTRACT
The modernisation, as well as the progressive emergence of middle class following the pace of urbanisation, had as its ultimate consequence the dissociation of kingship and political power in favour of a formally parliamentary regime. The modernisation, as well as the progressive emergence of middle class following the pace of urbanisation, had as its ultimate consequence the dissociation of kingship and political power in favour of a formally parliamentary regime. Neither the failure of various fundamental laws, regularly short-circuited by political parties or raped by the military, or Thailand’s persistent numerous socio-economic frustrations, are enough to explain the present impotence of the royal mechanism to restore the balance of Thai society. In-between, the failure of politicians, the flakes in constitutions, military’s political ambitions and cumulated socio-economic frustrations and bureaucratic misfits, paved the way for growing criticism of the working of the royal institution.
