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 …

Why do party leaders constrain their own power and allow the use of primary elections? I
develop a model of intraparty politics and electoral competition in which an ambitious office …

Taiwan is a place of contradictions. Its successful economic and political modernization has
stimulated the imaginations of most observers. Still, its nation-state status has been …

One of the largest democracies in the world, Indonesia holds elections from the national to
the subnational levels. This process inexorably involves hundreds of candidate nominations …

In early 2011, the Kuomintang (KMT, Guomindang) government appeared to be in danger of
losing power in the upcoming presidential elections. The DPP had recovered sufficiently …

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 …

This study provides a descriptive summary of the 2016 election campaign in Taiwan,
including key turning points and a review of the election results. Using centralization—the …

This study looks at the consequences of party switching in an Asian third-wave democracy,
Taiwan. We examine some of the key theoretical questions related to party switching. Earlier …

In order to understand why women tend to be under-nominated even though they are more
likely to be elected compared to men in Taiwan, this study focuses on the nomination …

For some years now the clamor for democratisation of parties' internal functioning has been
spreading across democracies. Among them, France has advanced impressively in the past …