In 1991 Taiwan held its first fully democratic election. This first single volume of party politics in Taiwan analyzes the evolution of party competition in the country, looking at how Taiwan’s ...parties have adjusted to their new multi-party election environment. It features key chapters on:
the development of party politics in Taiwan
the impact of party change on social welfare, corruption and national identity
party politics in the DPP era.
Including interviews with high-ranking Taiwanese politicians and material on the 2004 Presidential election, this important work brings the literature up-to-date. It provides a valuable resource for scholars of Chinese and Taiwanese politics and a welcome addition to the field of regime transition and democratization.
Acknowledgements. List of Tables List of Figures. Abbreviations. 1. Party Change and the Democratic Evolution of Taiwan 2. The Development of Party Politics in Taiwan 3. Issues in Taiwanese Electoral Politics 4. Party Change on the Social Welfare Issue 5. Party Change on the Political Corruption Issue 6. Party Change on the National Identity Issue 7. Party Politics in the DPP Era 8. Conclusion. Bibliography. Appendix 1. Appendix 2
This unique volume highlights Taiwan's ongoing efforts to mediate between competing political actors, a means to ensure domestic stability and national security without severely affecting its ...continuous economic growth and sovereign status in international society. Taiwan's Politics in the 21st Century concentrates on three general areas: domestic politics, political economy, and external relations.
Global Taiwan examines the impact of globalization on the industry and economy of Taiwan since the spectacular growth of the 1990s. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with firms in Taiwan, China, the ...United States, Japan, Europe, and other areas, the book analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Taiwanese firms at a time when they face new competition from powerful global leaders and new producers in China. The contributors cover topics of enormous importance for Taiwan as well as the rest of the world, including transformations in the international economy, technological advances that enabled modularization and fragmentation of the production system, contract manufacturers, regionalization, and links with Chinese industry. The book addresses such questions as: Can Taiwanese companies be maintained and expanded with the same corporate strategies and public policies as in the past? Can these strategies still work for other countries? If changes are required, what resources can be mobilized in the public and private sectors? As massive relocation of manufacturing and services moves plants and jobs to low-wage countries like China and India, what will remain at home in societies like Taiwan?
1. Globalization and the Future of the Taiwan Miracle, Suzanne Berger and Richard K. Lester; 2. Industry Co-Evolution: A Comparison of Taiwan and North American Electronics Contract Manufacturers, Timothy J. Sturgeon and Ji-Ren Lee; 3. Leading, Following or Cooked Goose? Explaining Innovation Successes and Failures in Taiwan's Electronics Industry, Douglas B. Fuller, Akintunde I. Akinwande, and Charles G. Sodini; 4. A Tale of Two Sectors: Diverging Paths in Taiwan's Automotive Industry, Edward Cunningham, Teresa Lynch, and Eric Thun; 5. Moving Along the Electronics Value Chain: Taiwan in the Global Economy, Douglas B. Fuller; 6. From NAFTA to China? Production Shifts and Their Implications for Taiwanese Firms, Marcos Ancelovici and Sara Jane McCaffrey; 7. Innovation and the Limits of State Power: IC Design and Software in Taiwan, Dan Breznitz; 8. Cross-Straits Integration and Industrial Catch-up: How Vulnerable Is the Taiwan Miracle to an Ascendant Mainland? Edward S. Steinfeld
Focusing on the capital cities of Beijing and Taipei, this book provides a detailed discussion of state-sponsored neighborhood organizations in China and Taiwan. It is grounded in the comparative ...scholarship on neighborhood organizations, civil society, and state-society relations, particularly in East Asia.
The Taiwan Voter examines the critical role ethnic and national identities play in politics, utilizing the case of Taiwan. Although elections there often raise international tensions, and have led to ...military demonstrations by China, no scholarly books have examined how Taiwan’s voters make electoral choices in a dangerous environment. Critiquing the conventional interpretation of politics as an ideological battle between liberals and conservatives, The Taiwan Voter demonstrates in Taiwan the party system and voters’ responses are shaped by one powerful determinant of national identity—the China factor.
Taiwan’s electoral politics draws international scholarly interest because of the prominent role of ethnic and national identification. While in most countries the many tangled strands of competing identities are daunting for scholarly analysis, in Taiwan the cleavages are powerful and limited in number, so the logic of interrelationships among issues, partisanship, and identity are particularly clear. The Taiwan Voter unites experts to investigate the ways in which social identities, policy views, and partisan preferences intersect and influence each other. These novel findings have wide applicability to other countries, and will be of interest to a broad range of social scientists interested in identity politics.
Taiwan in Troubled Times is concerned with Taiwan's politics and its relations with China following the election of Chen Shui-bian as President in March 2000. This event created problems between ...Taiwan and China and led to political gridlock in Taiwan. The Chen Administration is evaluated in this book. So is President Chen's party, which evolved as an opposition party and is now in power but is unaccustomed to the role.
This study explores the Taiwan issue from the three perspectives of Beijing, Taipei, and Washington since Taiwan leader Lee Teng-hui's visit to Cornell University in 1995. These are explored, by ...leading scholars, not only in terms of the three parties involved, but also in terms of the differences within each party.
This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the distinguishing features of Chinese families. This first full scale study seeks to understand Chinese families within the Chinese ...social context and draws comparisons with existing western theories and models of the family. It also explores the connection between two Chinese societies across the Taiwan Strait and investigates if the unique features of Chinese families can be applied to broaden the scope of family analysis in general. This book covers ten core areas, including co-residence, marriage, fertility, education, mobility, gender preferences, family supports, filial feedbacks, housework allocation, and the dynamics of family norm changes. The book uses theory-based empirical studies with data collected from a unique panel survey conducted in various areas across the Taiwan Strait, namely Taiwan and Southeast China. The two focal points of the study are geographically close, ethnically homogeneous, and are open to the modern market economy. A comprehensive analysis of these two areas provides new insights into the similarities and differences of Chinese families, to what extent they are distinct from Western ones, and how these similarities and differences were formed. The uniquely complex nature of intra-family interactions in Chinese families and the rapidly changing social background against which these interactions occur make this a hugely fascinating topic. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/9780199578092/toc.html
Looking North, Looking South Brady, Anne-Marie
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Looking North, Looking South brings together the works of leading China, Taiwan, and Pacific politics specialists analysing a topic of growing importance: China and Taiwan's ever-growing involvement ...in the South Pacific. There is no doubt that China is on the rise in Asia, Africa, South America, the Caribbeans, and even the Antarctica and the Arctic, this rise can be partly attributed to China's activities in the South Pacific.This book will pinpoint China's involvement in the South Pacific within the context of China's wider foreign policy and the challenges it poses to the traditional dominant powers of the region - the China-Taiwan rivalry has helped to seriously alter the balance of traditional influence in the South Pacific where China is now one of the largest aid donors in the region, squeezing out Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, both in terms of funding and influence.
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