International Master Program in Asia-Pacific Studies (IMAS)
Political Development of Taiwan, 2014
Times/Place: Thursday 1830~2130, #271201(North Wing of General Building)
Instructor: Ching-hsin Yu
Office Hours: Thursday: 1500~1700, by appointment
Office: #270503, Election Study Center (General Building)
E-Mail: , Tel: 02, 29384074
Course Description
This course aims at providing baseline understanding of Taiwan’s political development since 1945. In particular, this course focuses on the development of Taiwan’s democratic transition along with the developments of political institutions, parties and party system, citizen’s political participation, and core political issues. Relevant theoretical perspectives will be introduced into class discussions. Field study or invited lecture on the special topic will be arranged whenever possible and will be treated as formal classes.
It is a course of reading, discussion, and writing. Students are strongly encouraged to read suggested materials before class. Reading list will be assigned in advance. Participants are responsible for reading materials and leading group discussion in class. Each participant should prepare a short summary (less than five pages, single space) when leading the discussion. Also, each student needs to write a 15-page or above essay at the end of semester.
Syllabus will be provided in the first course meeting. In addition to the listed materials, students are encouraged to read other Chinese materials to acquire more detailed and instant information on Taiwan’s political development. Extra materials will be distributed to class when necessary.
Grade Distribution
(1)Course Presentations and Discussions 25%;
(2)Leading Group Discussion 25% ;
(3)Essay 50%, by June 26th, 2014
Syllabus and Readings
＜theories and disciplines＞
Cheng, Tun-jen and Stephan Haggard, 1992
Regime Transformation in Taiwan: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. In Tun-jen Cheng and Stephan Haggard, eds., Political Change in Taiwan. Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 1-29.
Cheng, T. J. and Andrew D. Marble, 2004
Taiwan Studies and the Social Sciences. Issues & Studies 40, no. 3/4, pp. 9-57.
Clark, Cal, 1989
Taiwan’s Development: Implications for Contending Political Economy Paradigms. Chap.1 (The Puzzle of Rapid Growth in Taiwan) and Chap. 2 (Alternative Paradigms of Development), pp. 1-9; 13-50..
Huntington, Samuel P., 1991
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Chap. 3 (Why?)The University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 31-108.
Lee, Junhan, 2002
Primay Causes of Asian Democratization: Dispelling Conventional Myths. Asian Survey, Vol. 42, No. 6 (November/December 2002), pp. 821-837.
Rigger, Shelley, 2003
Political Science and Taiwan’s Domestic Politics: the State of the Field. Issues & Studies 38(4/39), no. 1, pp. 49-92.
Roy, Denny, 2003
Taiwan under Lee Teng-hui. In Denny Roy, Taiwan: A Political History. Ithaca, NY.: Cornell University Press, chap. 7, pp. 183-226.
Tsang, Steve, 2001
Chiang Ching-kuo, the Nature of the Kuomintang and the Democratic Breakthrough in Taiwan. In The Taiwan Studies Promotion Committee of Academia Sinica, ed., Change of an Authoritarian Regime: Taiwan in the Post-Martial Law Era. Taipei: Institute of Taiwan History (Preparatory Office), Academia Sinica, pp. 119-149.
Whitehead, Laurence, 2007
Taiwan’s Democratization: A Critical Test for the International Dimensions Perspective. Paper presented in International Conference on the After the Third Wave: Problems and Challenges for the New Democracies. August 13th -14th, 2007, Taipei: Taiwan.
Winckler, Edwin A., 2001
Regime Type and Regime Change on Taiwan: Some Conceptual Issues and Comparative Implications. In The Taiwan Studies Promotion Committee of Academia Sinica, ed., Change of an Authoritarian Regime: Taiwan in the Post-Martial Law Era. Taipei: Institute of Taiwan History (Preparatory Office), Academia Sinica, pp. 19-62.
Wu, Yu-Shan, 2013
Comparing Taiwan and the CEE TrioThe Impact of Social and Institutional Factorson Democracy. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Special Issue, 103-127.
＜constitutions and institutions after 1945＞
楊日清（編），2006
中華民國憲法要義（The Constitution of the Republic of China）。台北：五南圖書出版股份有限公司。頁27-43（chap. 2）；203-232, esp. 220-229（chap. 6）。
王業立，2008
比較選舉制度（第五版），台北：五南圖書出版股份有限公司。頁41-70（chap. 3）；91-120（chap. 5）。
沈有忠(Yu-chung Shen)，2012
〈半總統制「權力總統化」之比較研究〉。《臺灣民主季刊》，第9卷，第4期，頁1-36。(Comparative Research on the“Power Presidentialization”of Semi-Presidentialism)
蘇子喬(Tzu-chiao Su)，2013
〈兼容並蓄或拼裝上路？—從內閣制與總統制優劣辯論檢視半總統制的利弊〉。《臺灣民主季刊》，第10卷，第4期，頁1-47。(A Beneficial Combination or A Detrimental Mixture? Evaluating the Effect of Semi-Presidentialism on the Basis of the Debates on the Virtues and Vices of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism)
Chang, Alex Chuan-Hsien and Yu-Tzung Chang, 2009
Rational Choices and IrrationalResults: The DPP's InstitutionalChoice in Taiwan's Electoral Reform. Issues & Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 23-60.
Hsieh, John Fuh-Sheng, 2006
Institutional Design for a Mildly Divided Society: The Case of Taiwan. Issues & Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 81-102.
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The Origins and Consequences of Electoral Reform in Taiwan. Issues & Studies, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 1-22.
Lin, Jih-Wen, 2007
Why Did Electoral Reforms Create Unfair Electoral Systems in East Asia. Paper presented in International Conference on the After the Third Wave: Problems and Challenges for the New Democracies. August 13th -14th, 2007, Taipei: Taiwan.
Roy, Denny, 2003
Martial Law and Kuomintang Domination. In Denny Roy, Taiwan: A Political History. Ithaca, NY.: Cornell University Press, chap. 4, pp. 75-104.
Shen, 2011
Semi-presidentialism in TaiwanA Shadow of the Constitution of the Weimar Republic. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, volume 7, no. 1: 135-152.
Shugart, Matther Søberg, 2005
Comparative Electoral Systems Research: The Maturation of a Field and New Challenges Ahead.. In M. Gallgher and P. Mitchell, eds., The Politics of Electoral Systems. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, pp. 25-55.
Tien, Hung-Mao and Tun-Jen Cheng, 1999
Crafting Democratic Institutions. In Steve Tsang and Hung-Mao Tien, eds., Democratization in Taiwan: Implications for China. MacMillan Press Ltd., pp. 23-48.
Wu, Yu-Shan and Jung-Hsiang Tsai, 2008
Taiwan: Democratic Consolidation under Presidential Supremacy. Taipei, Taiwan : Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica.
Yu, Ching-hsin and Yu-cheng Chang, 2009
Disproportionality under the Mixed-member System in Taiwan’s Legislative Election of 2008. Japanese Journal of Electoral Studies 25 (2): 119-130.
＜parties and party system＞
Cheng, Tun-jen, 1989
Democratizing the Quasi-Leninist Regime in Taiwan. World Politics 41(4): 471-499. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan II. NY: Routledge, pp. 3-29.
Dickson, Bruce J., 1996
The Kuomintang before Democratization: Organizational Change and the Role of Elections. In Hung-mao Tien, ed., Taiwan’s Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition. NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., pp. 42-78.
Fell, Dafyll, 2011
More or Less Space for Identity in Taiwan’s Party Politics? In Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm (eds.), Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY.: Routledge, pp. 95-112.
Lin, Chung-chu, 2006
The Evolution of Party Images and Party System in Taiwan, 1992-2004. East Asia: An International Quarterly 23(1): 27-46. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan IV. NY: Routledge, pp. 78-99.
Lu, Alexander Ya-li, 1992
Political Opposition in Taiwan: The Development of the Democratic Progressive Party. In Tun-jen Cheng and Stephan Haggard, eds., Political Change in Taiwan. Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 121-146.
Rigger, Shelley, 1999
Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy. Chap.3 (Party-state Authoritarianism in the Pre-reform Era, 1945-1972), NY: Routledge, pp. 55-80.
Schubert, Gunter and Stefan Brain, 2011
How to Face an Embracing China? The DPP’s Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations during and after the Chen Shui-bian Era. In Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm (eds.), Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY.: Routledge, pp. 72-94.
Tien, Hung-mao, 1992
Transformation of an Authoritarian Party State: Taiwan’s Development Experience. In Tun-jen Cheng and Stephan Haggard, eds., Political Change in Taiwan. Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 33-55.
Wu, Yu-Shan, 2011
The Evolution of the KMT’s Stance on the One China Principle: National Identity in flux. In Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm (eds.), Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY.: Routledge, pp. 51-71.
Yu, Ching-hsin, 2005
The Evolving Party System in Taiwan, 1995-2004. Journal of Asian and African Studies 40(1/2): 105-123. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan IV. NY: Routledge, pp. 58-77.
＜electoral politics＞
Chao, Linda and Ramon H. Myers, 2000
How Elections Promoted Democracy in Taiwan Under Martial Law. The China Quarterly, Special Issue: Elections and Democracy in Greater China 162: 387-409. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan II. NY: Routledge, pp. 67-90.
Copper, John F., 2009
Transitioning from the CHEN Shui-bian to the MA Ying-jeou Presidency: The State of Democratization in Taiwan. In Seyom Brown, Cal Clark, Hiroki Takeuchi, and Alex Tan, eds., Taiwan at a Turning Point. Baltimore, MD.: University of Maryland School of Law, pp. 4-21.
Diamond, Larry, 2001
Anatomy of an Electoral Earthquake: How the KMT Lost and the DPP Won the 2000 Presidential election. In Muthiah Alagppa, ed., Taiwan’s Presidential Politics: Democratization and Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century. New York: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 48-87.
Dickson, Bruce, 2001
Taiwan’s Democratization: What Lessons for China?. In Muthiah Alagppa, ed., Taiwan’s Presidential Politics: Democratization and Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century. New York: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 115-132.
Fell, Dafydd, 2002
Party Platform Change in Taiwan’s 1990s Elections. Issues & Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 31-60.
Lay, Jinn-Guey, Ko-Hua Yap and Yu-Wen Chen, 2008
Transition of Taiwan's Political Geography. Asian Survey, vol. 48, no. 5 (September/October 2008), pp. 773-793
Lee, Wei-chin, 2011
Mediated Politics in TaiwanPolitical Talk Shows and Democracy. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, vol. 7, no. 2: 49-67.
Lin, Chiung-Chu, 2008
The Role of Issue in Taiwan’s Politics, 1996-2004. Issues & Studies, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 71-104.
Rampal, Kuldip Roy, 2011
The Media’s “Public Sphere” for Civil Societyin Taiwan’s DemocraticConsolidation.Taiwan Journal of Democracy, volume 7, no. 2: 69-93
Rigger, Shelley, 1999
Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy. Chap.2 (Learning to Vote: The Origins of Taiwan’s Electoral System), NY: Routledge, pp. 34-54.
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Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy. Chap. 4 (Electoral Mobilization in the Pre-reform Era, 1945-1972), NY: Routledge, pp. 81-102
Sullivan, Jonathan, 2008
Campaign Advertising and Democracy in Taiwan. The China Quarterly, no. 196 (Dec., 2008), pp. 900-911.
Sullivan, Jonathan and Eliyahu Sapir, 2012
Nasty or Nice? Explaining Positive and Negative Campaign Behavior in Taiwan. The China Journal, no. 67 (January 2012), pp. 149-170.
Tien, Hung-mao, 1996
Elections and Taiwan’s Democratic Development. In Hung-mao Tien, ed., Taiwan’s Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition. NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., pp. 3-26.
Wang, T. Y., Su-Feng Cheng, and Lu-Huei Chen, 2009
Deep-Green Supporters and PoliticalTolerance in Taiwan: An Analysis ofKennedy's Hypothesis. Issues & Studies, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 1-30.
＜identity issues＞
Chang, G. Andy andT. Y. Wang, 2005
Taiwanese or Chinese? Independence or Unification?: An Analysis of Generational Differences in Taiwan.Journal of Asian and African Studies(April) 40: 29-49.
Chu, Yun-han, and Jih-wen Lin, 2001
Political Development in 20th Century Taiwan: State-Building, Regime Transformation and the Construction of National Identity. The China Quarterly 165: 102-129. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan I. NY: Routledge, pp. 25-53.
Dittmer, Lowell, 2005
Taiwan’s Aim-Inhibited Quest for Identity and the China Factor. Journal of Asian and African Studies(April)40: 71-90.
Gold, Thomas B., 1993
Taiwan’s Quest for Identity in the Shadow of China. In Steve Tsang (ed.), In the Shadow of China: Political Development in Taiwan since 1949. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 169-192. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan I. NY: Routledge, pp. 25-53.
Hsieh, John Fuh-sheng, 2005
Ethnicity, National Identity, and Domestic Politics in Taiwan. Journal of Asian and African Studies(April)40: 13-28.
Huang, Chi, 2005
Dimensions of Taiwanese/Chinese Identity and National Identity in Taiwan: A Latent Class Analysis. Journal of Asian and African Studies(April)40: 51-70.
Schubert, Gunter, 2005
Taiwan’s Political Parties and National Identity. Asian Survey 44(4): 534-554. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan III. NY: Routledge, pp. 145- 165.
Shen, Shiau-Chi and Nai-Teh Wu, 2008
Ethnic and Civic Nationalisms: Two Roads to the Formation of A Taiwanese Nation. In Peter C. Y. Chow, ed., The “One China” Dilemma. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 117-143.
Wachman, Alan M., 1994
Competiting Identities in Taiwan. In Murray Rubinstein (ed.), The Other Taiwan: 1945 to the Present. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 17-80. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan I. NY: Routledge, pp. 126-192.
＜comparisons and future observations＞
Chang, Mau-Kuei Michael, 2008
Taiwanese Nationalism and Democratic Values. In Peter C. Y. Chow, ed., The “One China” Dilemma. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 99-115
Eunju Chi and Hyeok Yong Kwon , 2012
Unequal New Democracies in East Asia: Rising Inequality and Government Responses in SouthKorea and Taiwan. Asian Survey, vol. 52, no. 5(September/October 2012), pp. 900-923.
Friedman, Edward, 2013
China’s Ambitions, America’s Interests, Taiwan’s Destiny, and Asia’s Future. Asian Survey, vol. 53, no. 2 (March/April 2013), pp. 225-244.
Ho, Ming-sho and Chen-Shuo Hong, 2012
Challenging New Conservative Regimes in South Korea and Taiwan.Asian Survey, vol. 52, no. 4 (July/August 2012), pp. 643-665
Jacobs, J. Bruce, 2007
Taiwan and South Korea: Comparing East Asia’s Two “Third-Wave” Democracies. Issues & Studies, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 227-260.
Keng, Shu, Lu-Huei Chen and Kuan-Po Huang, 2006
Sense, Sensitivity, and Sophistication in Shaping the Future of Cross-Strait Relations. Issues & Studies, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 23-66.
Keng, Shu and Gunter Schubert, 2010
Agents of Taiwan-China Unification? The Political Roles of Taiwanese Business People in theProcess of Cross-Strait Integration. Asian Survey, vol. 50, no. 2 (March/April 2010), pp. 287-310
Keng, Shu, 2011
Understanding Integration and “Spollover” across the Taiwan Strait: towards and Analytical Framework. In Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm (eds.), Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY.: Routledge, pp. 155-175.
Liu, Frank C. S. and Francis L. F. Lee, 2013
Country, National, and Pan-national Identification in Taiwan and Hong Kong: StandingTogether as Chinese? Asian Survey, vol. 53, no. 6 (November/December 2013), pp. 1112-1134.
Saunders, Phillip C. AndScott L.,2009
Bridge over TroubledWater?Envisioning a China-TaiwanPeace Agreement.International Security, vol. 33, no. 4 (Spring 2009), pp. 87–114.
Stockton, Hans, 2008
National Identity, International Image, and a Security Dilemma: The Case of Taiwan. In Peter C. Y. Chow, ed., The “One China” Dilemma. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 99-115
Wong, Kevin Tze Wai, 2010
The Emergence of Class Cleavages in Taiwan in the Twenty-First Century: The Impact of Cross-Strait Economic Integration. Issues & Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 127-172.
Wu, Yu-Shan, 2001
Comparing Third-Wave Democracies: East Central Europe and the ROC.Issues & Studies, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 1-37.
Zheng, Zhenqing, 2013
Taiwan’s Wealth Gap and the Evolution of Electoral Politics after the 2008 Global FinancialCrisis. Asian Survey, vol. 53, no. 5 (September/October 2013), pp. 825-853.
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