1st Edition
Democratic Governance in Taiwan
This book employs a policy-based approach to examine the emerging governance structure in Taiwan, one of several countries in East Asia where democratic consolidation is firmly established.
Each chapter provides a detailed investigation of reforms that have helped to strengthen Taiwan’s democracy in such areas as elections, civil service recruitment, economic policy, social policy, environmental protection, civil rights, response to the COVID-19 pandemic, civil–military relations, and foreign and mainland China policy.
As a study of Taiwan’s democratic governance, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, comparative politics, democracy, and Taiwan.
Introduction
John Fuh-sheng Hsieh and Robert Henry Cox
Chapter 1- Regime Type and Governance: The Case of Taiwan
John Fuh-sheng Hsieh
Chapter 2- Managing Voting for Democracy in Taiwan
I-chou Liu
Chapter 3- When Democracy Meets Bureaucracy: Studying Reforms of Taiwan’s Civil Service since Democratization in the Late 1980s
Don-yuan Chen, Hsiang-kai Dong and Yang-chung Chen
Chapter 4- The Mutinous Mutation of the Developmental State in Taiwan Revisited
Yun-peng Chu
Chapter 5- From Developmentalism to Post-industrialism: The Evolution of the Welfare State in Taiwan
Joseph Wong
Chapter 6- Environmental Protection after Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation: Is Democracy Working for the Environment?
Dafydd Fell
Chapter 7- From Political Democratization to the Claim for Social Justice
Wan-Ying Yang
Chapter 8- When Democracy Meets the COVID-19 Pandemic: Taiwan’s Experience
Wei-ting Yen and Li-yin Liu
Chapter 9- Charting the Way Forward: Taiwan’s Civil-Military Relations after 2016
Wei-chin Lee
Chapter 10- Taiwan’s Domestic Politics, Economic Development and National Security and Their Links to Foreign Policy and Democratization
John Copper
Chapter 11- David vs. Goliath: Taiwan’s Policy Toward China
T.Y. Wang
Biography
John Fuh-sheng Hsieh is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, USA.
Robert Henry Cox is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, USA
