Authoritarian regimes become more likely to democratize when they face little choice or little
risk. In some cases, the risk of democratization to authoritarian incumbents is so low that …

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 …

When Mexico's authoritarian Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) was defeated in the
2000 presidential election after seventy-one years of uninterrupted rule, many analysts …

The financial crisis that swept across East Asia during 1997-1998 was devastating not only
in its economic impact but also in its social and political effects. The explosive growth and …

This paper empirically highlights the role of nationalism in the development of the
semiconductor industry in Taiwan. First, it demonstrates how the pre‐1980s Taiwanese …

This study is an attempt to explain adoption and implementation of transitional justice
mechanisms in post-Suharto Indonesia (1998–). In latecomer democracies, the …

Debates about whether China's rise poses a threat or an opportunity for Taiwan have settled
into a realist assumption that Beijing will continue to upset the balance of power and a …

The Kuomintang (KMT) governed Taiwan without interruption from the late 1940s through to
the twenty-first century. The party initially ruled as an authoritarian party-state, though later …

The constitution of the Republic of China took effect on December 25, 1947; the first
substantive amendments were not added until 1991. In the intervening decades the ROC …

The DPP's victory over the KMT in Taiwan's 2020 elections has been interpreted as a
triumph for anti-China sentiment. However, the rise of political outsiders and their influence …