Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Reform

by Shelley Rigger

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415172097
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/19/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rigger, Shelley

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"Rigger provides an excellent description of Taiwan's political history during the postwar era after the Nationalist or Kuomintang (KMT) Party evacuated to the island after losing the civil war on the Chinese mainland to Mao's Communists...The book is insightful, balanced and quite readable...."Politics in Taiwanis to provide by far the most extensive and sophisticated analysis available in English of the politics of local factions in Taiwan. Consequently, the book is almost required reading for anybody who wants a full understanding of democratic politics in Taiwan.."
-Cal Clark, "Pacific Afairs

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