Rigger Politics in Taiwan

Voting for Reform
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-134-69297-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

This book shows that Taiwan, unlike other countries, avoided serious economic disruption and social conflict, and arrived at its goal of multi-party competition with little blood shed. Nonetheless, this survey reveals that for those who imagine democracy to be the panacea for every social, economic and political ill, Taiwan's continuing struggles against corruption, isolation and division offer a cautionary lesson.
This book is an ideal, one-stop resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of political science, particuarly those interested in the international politics of China, and the Asia-Pacific.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rigger, Shelley

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Voting for democracy. Learning to vote: The origins of Taiwan's electoral system. Party-state Authoritarianism in the Pre-reform era. Politkical Reform under Chiang Ching-kuo.The Watershed elections of 1989. The Lee Teng-hui Years (1990-1996). Continuing Challenges to Taiwan's Democracy.