Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2002
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The Power of the
Ballot Box: Political Development and Election
Campaigning in Taiwan |
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The Power of the Ballot Box analyzes the impact
on Taiwanese politics of the "Third Wave" of
democratization that swept across East Asia in the
last decades of the twentieth century. Christian
Schafferer's work looks beyond regional and global
causes to pinpoint the true indigenous foundations
of Taiwan's, and on a broader scale East Asia's,
political development, and examines the pivotal
importance of Taiwanese local elections in the
island's democratization process. Based on
extensive research and in-depth interviews with
leading Taiwanese politicians and political
scientists, the book provides a detailed history of
Taiwan's electoral experience from the turn of the
twentieth century, through the Kuomintang regime,
to the present day. This is supplemented by a
focused case study of the watershed 1997 Taiwanese
local elections and its profound impact on the
Taiwanese political landscape. List of Tables and Figures Foreword 1 Global Democratic Development and Taiwan 1 2 Elections in Postwar Taiwan 31 3 Case Study: the 1997 Local Elections 143 Bibliography Index |
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