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Using the 2006 Anti-Corruption Movement as an illustration, this paper investigates the (im)possibility of resistance to the formation of Taiwanese national identity as a form of domination. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Linking domestic & international politics, this paper offers a model of "Four-Level Nested Games" approach to Taiwan problems. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers how variation in state capacity for controlling.x000d.political information facilitates regime popularity or regime change..x000d.Contemporary China and Taiwan are treated as cases for testing a new theory.x000d.about political information and regime survival. After examining media control.x000d.mechanisms, media content from 20,000 articles in mass circulation daily newspapers from 1978-2003, and political change over time, this paper argues that improvements in Chinese information control and propaganda increased popular support for the ruling Chinese Communist Party. By comparison, the Nationalist regime in Taiwan proved unable to control media content and yielded space for the emergence of political competitors, who used mass media to advocate political reform and garner support for democratic regime change. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Next year’s (2007) Congressional election in Taiwan will employ the new “single district, two votes system”. The implementation of the new system requires reapportionment of electoral districts through out the country. The reapportioners of the Central Election Commission and the various local election commissions in Taiwan are now totally immersed in mapping out reapportionment plans. This is the first time that the Taiwan government has engaged in such a nationwide, full-scale electoral demarcating undertaking. To borrow experiences from advanced democratic countries, this paper perused over literature concerning apportionment and reapportionment in Parliamentary and Congressional districting practices in Great Britain and the United States. From these two case studies, we derived districting criteria as they were used in demarcating electoral districts in England and America. These districting criteria were, in turn, converted into “benchmarking” criteria for designing Congressional districts in Taiwan. We use Q-methodology in our study to treat these “criteria” as “Q-statements” or “Q-items”. These “Q-statements” or “Q-items” were “sorted out” by a panel of eight policy stakeholders or specialists according to the items’ relevance and salience for formulating reapportionment formula in Taiwan. The panel’s evaluation of the “Q-statements” enables us to conduct an empirical analysis. The analysis comes up with a package of practical proposals for implementing reapportionment schemes in Taiwan. The proposals include setting up yardsticks for reapportionment such as the principles of equity of population and contiguity of districts; the integrity of districting area and administrative jurisdiction; and the linkage between redistricting and geographical boundaries. In the concluding part, this paper also proffers three policy recommendations: 1.When several dispersed old districts are regrouped into a new single district, partisan negotiation must be conducted to reach consensus in order to avoid reapportionment dispute. 2.Workshops must be held for reapportionment practitioners to heighten their perceptions of possible gerrymandering in executing redistricting projects. 3.All levels of election commissions must invite citizens to participate in “deliberative polling sessions” to listen to “grass-roots” voice to make the implementation of the redistricting plans more feasible. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper investigates the political domination methods used by the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) during its 50-year domination on the island of Taiwan. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay applies a historical institutionalist approach toward the comparative study of democratic transition in Taiwan and South Korea. The authors argue the authoritarian regime and international context matter. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research applies a multidimensional approach, utilizing both macro and micro-level approaches as well as historical and contextual factors to examine regime transformation in Taiwan and South Korea. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]