Can too much participation harm democracy? Democratic theory places great importance
upon the conduct of elections, but it is not often recognized that the electoral game takes …

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 …

The right of Xavier Coller, Guillermo Cordero, and Antonio M. Jaime-Castillo to be identified
as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has …

A study of processes of political party formation and change in new democracies. This book
argues that to understand party organizations we need to focus on politicians' electoral …

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 …

Conflict between factions has been identified as an important factor explaining different
procedures of candidate selection. However, the question of what drives factions in …

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 …

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 …

This chapter reviews the existing research and key trends of continuity and change in
Taiwan's party politics. Rather than examining all Taiwan's registered parties, the chapter's …

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 …