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The Making and Operation of a Kuomintang Candidate's Vote – Buying Machine
Volume #2, Number #1

Vote—buying has long been a wide —spread phenomenon in elections on Taiwan. It is most commonly practiced by the Kuomintang candidates. This essay analyzes the making and operation of the vote —buying machine of a KMT candidate. The information is collect

Chin-shou Wang
Vote-buying, Local Faction, Electoral Mobilization, Local Political, KMT
The U.S. Stratery of Democratic Enlargement in Theory and Pratice
Volume #2, Number #1

To modify foreign policy to suit the post-Cold War era, the United States has proposed the strategy of democratic enlargement, replacing the outdated communist containment This paper analyzes and assesses the theoretical underpinnings and policy practices

Chih-Chaeng Lo
Democratic Enlargement, Clinton Doctrine, Immanuel Kant, Democratic Peace, U.S. Foreign Policy, Security Strategy, Foreign Assistance, Preventive Diplomacy, liberalism
Consensus Mobilization of the Political Opposition in Taiwan: Comparing Two Waves of Challenges, 1979 – 1989
Volume #1, Number #1

Previous explanations of the rapid development of the political opposition in Taiwan after 1986, when the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) announce its establishment, tend to focus on the process of "political elite interactions" between the Kuomintang

Fu-chang Wang
consensus mobilization, political opposition Chinese Nationalism, Taiwanese Nationalism, movement radicalization
Economic Leap – Forward, Political Stalemate? --the Trends of Taiwan – Chinese Relations in the Early Post – Cold War Era
Volume #1, Number #1

Economic exchange between Taiwan and China has been growing rapidly since the mid 1980s. Hong Kong/China has become the largest export market for Taiwan as of October 1995. Meanwhile, China is also the largest recipient of the political interaction that h

Jieh-min Wu
International relation, international political economy, China, Taiwan, Taiwan-Chinese relations, post-cold war, economic development, economic sanction, peaceful evolution, peaceful change
Ethnic Identity and Political Cognition: An Analysis of Taiwanese Votes
Volume #1, Number #1

The competition between Chinese identity and Taiwanese identity is the most important and troublesome political problem in today's Taiwan. To understand this significant macro-political phenomenon, I start with a systematic investigation into the relation

Ying-lung You
ethnic identity, party image, party identification, ideology, campaign issues, group identity, group consciousness, Taiwanese identity, Chinese identity
Liberalism, Ethnic Identity and Taiwanese Nationalism
Volume #1, Number #1

As the authoritarian regime in Taiwan was transformed into a more democratic system, conflict over national identities has emerged as the most important social cleavage in party competition. Students of nationalism have pointed out that ethnicity lies at

Naiteh Wu
Nationalism, National, Identity, liberalism, Secessionism, ethnic identity
National Identity and Partisan Vote-choice in Taiwan: Evidence from Survey Data between 1991 and 1993
Volume #1, Number #1

This paper first attempts to explore the increasing descensus of national identity of Taiwanese voters based on electoral survey data. Second, factors that determine individual s orientation in diversified national identity are analyzed and the relationsh

Huo-yan Shyu
National identity, Partisanship Election, Ethnic Identity political Culture
The Idea of Community: A Historical Review
Volume #1, Number #1

This essay reviews the idea of community in Western political thought. The classical paradigm is civic republicanism which emphasizes common good. self-rule, and civic virtue as the major characteristics of political life. After the dissolution of the cla

Sarl K. Y. Shaw
community, civil society, nation, state

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