Taiwan has been one of the most successful East Asian countries in transitioning from
authoritarian rule to liberal democracy. Using a wide range of survey data, this paper …

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 …

A central challenge for scholars of party politics is to explain parties' electoral success or
failure. Campaign strategies, candidate personalities, electoral systems, parties' issue …

On June 7, 2005, the ad hoc National Assembly of Taiwan ratified a constitutional
amendment to change the electoral rules of the Legislative Yuan (the parliament) by halving …

Electoral systems determine how votes cast in an election are translated into seats in the
legislature, and thus to a large extent determine who wins and who loses in the political …

Previous studies examining whether introducing the Mixed-Member-Majoritarian (MMM)
electoral system to Japan's lower house in 1994 makes a difference in Japanese politics …

We know that politicians use different strategies to get reelected under different electoral
systems. Masahiko Asano and Dennis Patterson add to our understanding of these …