1st Edition

Democratic Governance in Taiwan

Edited By John Fuh-sheng Hsieh, Robert Cox Copyright 2022
222 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

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