Moreover, as our Table spells out, each of these three types comes
with its own set of patterns concerning the rule of law, constitutional
constraints on the monarch, the status of parliament, and the relative
autonomy of the judiciary. The sharp differences between “ruling monarchies,”
“constitutional monarchies,” and DPMs that the Table lists
should make clear how historically and analytically mistaken it is to
conflate DPM with constitutional monarchy. This three-part typology
should also help to focus research attention on boundary changes between
different types of monarchies, in particular on the undertheorized
and thus often underdocumented change from constitutional monarchy
to DPM.