Written by an experienced teacher and scholar, this new and revised second edition of
Government and Politics in Taiwan introduces students to the big questions concerning …

Examining the Green Party Taiwan (GPT) since its establishment through the aftermath of
the most recent national elections in January 2020, this book focuses on Taiwan's most …

Objectives. This article is a test of general electoral theory in the case of Taiwan's 2008,
postreform legislative election. In light of Taiwan's electoral reform, I test several hypotheses …

Taiwan's 2016 elections featured intense competition between its smaller political parties. A
record 18 parties contested the party list vote. This study examines how to explain the impact …

Over the last two and a half decades the Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Party
have dominated Taiwan's party system. From 2008-2012 they were the only parties …

The Green Party Taiwan (GPT) represents an important case both for scholars of
environmental politics but also Taiwanese politics. Established in 1996, it is the oldest Asian …

A number of developments suggest that we are now witnessing a golden age of
international Taiwan Studies. This stands in stark contrast to the situation when we began …

Patterns of party switching in Taiwan have played an important role in the development and
relative stability of its party system. In this study I aim to track key patterns of how politicians …

The role of the legislature in cross-Strait relations has been shaped by the development of
democracy in Taiwan. The process of democratization began in the late 1980s, and since …

The analysis begins by depicting the origins of the anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan, right at
the time when the martial law period was coming to an end. This chapter sketches the …