In this paper. the [999 European (Parliament) election has been used to test relevant theories on European elections have been regarded as second-order elections for decades. The 1999 European election is no exception, because it three defined characteris
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Volume #4, Number #1
Volume #4, Number #1
The phenomenon of divided government ; that is, the executive and legislative branches are controlled by different political parties has become daily reality in Taiwan‘s national and local politics. Yet it receives relatively little attention from a compa
Volume #4, Number #1
Democratic transition has been one of the most researched topics in the American political science in the past several decades. As Taiwanese politics was transformed in the late 1980's to democracy, the case also gained wide attention from both the Americ
Volume #3, Number #1
This paper tries to uncover the most significant factor determining the outcome of the Taipei Mayoral Election in 1994. The previous research has discovered that the voting decision of the electorate in Taiwan was to a large extent determined by party aff
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To elaborate the dynamics of the general mass attitudes in Taiwan toward the Unification-Independence issue, we explore both aggregate group behavior and individual level heterogeneity by convening consecutive cross-sectional data into a time-dependence s
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Three perspectives have been prevalent in explaining the rapid growth of rural industry in China: producer cooperative. local government ownership, and market transition. This article contends that the first two approaches do not hold empirically. Instead
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How is social order possible? We can find that the Bunun of Taketonpu effectively used the principle of mabeedasan (consensus without dissidence) to select their Lisigadan lus-an and Lavian so as to maintain their politico-social order under Japanese colo
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The purpose of this article is to address the role and status of policy discourse in policy change. Basically, policy change is assumed to be the interactive effects of three streams of force: deconstruction, construction and strengthened original structu
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Common understanding and previous studies tend to show that nationalized curriculum and education system have a strong unifying effect on the forming of national identity. Taiwan had been under authoritarian rule with a strong emphasis on nationalistic id
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Existing studies on single nontransferable voting system under -member district (SNTV ~MMD) have focused mainly on its proportionality and consequences and paid little attention to its changeablility. When Japan did replace it with a new electoral system