Routledge Party Politics in Taiwan: Party Change and the Democratic Evolution of Taiwan, 1991-2004 (Politics in Asia)

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. Review "This is a skillfully presented and very well-organized book that moves from chapter to chapter smoothly and efficently. It never buries its readers under mountains of data and thus is also a book that reads easily. Fell does not overwhelm the reader with jargon or with an overabundance of theory...By taking this tack, he makes Party Politics in Taiwan accessible and interesting to a wider audience than many other books on Taiwan's present-day political system this reviewer has read over the course of his 26 years spent studying Taiwan."--Murray A Rubenstein, Pacific Affairs, Vol 79 No 1, Spring 2006 About the Author Dafydd Fell is the Taiwan Studies Research Fellow at the Centre for Financial and Management Studies and Visiting Lecturer at the Politics Department at the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He is the coordinator of the SOAS Taiwan Studies Programme and the European Association of Taiwan Studies. He has published journal articles on party change, election campaigning, and inner party democracy in Taiwan.