Systemy konstytucyjne wybranych państw Azji Południowo-Wschodniej: Singapur, Malezja, Tajlandia, Timor Wschodni
The Constitutional Systems of Selected Southeast Asian States: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, East Timor

Author(s): Anna Michalak
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: supreme authority;Malaysia;parliament;electoral system;Thailand;East Timor;constitutional system;Singapore
Summary/Abstract: In the Polish science of constitutional law, the systems of Southeast Asian states have so far received little attention. The monograph presents an outline of the functioning of the constitutional systems of selected democracies in the region. When choosing countries for research, the most important criterion was the influence of the colonizing state’s constitutional system on the current condition of a given state. The constitutional systems of Malaysia and Singapore have been analyzed where a parliamentary model with the cabinet as the head of the executive was adopted based on the Westminster system of government. Meanwhile, East Timor, which has a constitution strongly modelled on the Portuguese Basic Law, remains an important reference point for Singapore. Thailand is unique in the sense that it has never been formally colonized but – when adopting the first constitution in 1932 and the second in 2007 – it also used the Westminster model. he deliberations presented in this work are an introduction to further research on the constitutional systems of Southeast Asian countries. More importantly, they set the stage for an analysis of the functions of parliaments in the democracies discussed.

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