A01=Linda Chao
A01=Ramon H. Myers
Author_Linda Chao
Author_Ramon H. Myers
Category=JPH
Category=JPQ
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Product details
- ISBN 9780801872396
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jul 2003
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The political transformation of Taiwan from an authoritarian regime into a democracy is one of the great political sagas of the 20th century. Defeated on the China mainland, the Kuomintang established a new polity on Taiwan that allowed for four remarkable patterns of political development. These patterns reflect a complex political process of behavioral and institutional change in which the key requisites for democracy now exist in Taiwan. Taiwan's history of citizen participation in direct elections, along with the political institutional changes narrated here by Chao and Myers, produced an unprecedented, peaceful political turn-over of power from the KMT ruling party to the DPP, or Democratic Progressive Party, in March 2000.
Linda Chao is a former research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Ramon H. Myers is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
