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GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF TAIWAN MA COURSE

Syllabus 2008-2009

Thursday 3.00-5.00

Russell Square Campus: Room 273

Course Coordinator: Dr Dafydd Fell

Office Hours: Wednesdays 2-3 and by appointment.

Office Room: 204

Email: [email protected]

Course Scope:

This course aims to examine the political processes that have shaped the Republic of

China on Taiwan since 1949, with particular emphasis on the last two decades. In the first part of the course Taiwan’s transition from authoritarianism to multiparty democracy is examined. This is followed by units on electoral politics, party politics, external relations, social movements and identity politics. Students will be encouraged to compare and contrast the political transformation in Taiwan with those in other developing countries and mature democracies.

Course Schedule:

1. October 2: Introduction to Taiwanese Politics

2. October 9: Authoritarian Rule: The Politics of Martial Law Taiwan

3. October 16: Transition to Democracy and Democratic Consolidation

4. October 23: Electoral Politics & Voting Behaviour

5. October 30: Party Politics in Taiwan

6. November 6: Reading Week

7. November 13: Competing National identities 8. November 20: National identities, democracy and Taiwan’s external relations

9. November 27: Inner Party Democracy, and Local and Factional Politics

10. December 4: Social Welfare System & Social Movements

11. December 11: Assessing Democratic Consolidation and Changes in Ruling

Parties

12. Review Class Term 3 week 1

Coursework: 1 essay (c.3,500 words) to be submitted; to count toward final

assessment. Essay due by Thursday 18th January 2009;

Examination: Students will be required to sit a two-hour written examination in the third term.

Class Participation: Class participation is not formally assessed, but students are

expected to contribute to the class regularly and meaningfully. In each class one or

two students will make a short presentation on the readings.

Reading Requirement:

Students should expect to read the equivalent of a book a week, and more when

assigned presentations.

Class Format:

This will vary according to the lecturer. Usually there will be about 60-70 minutes of lecture, followed by student presentations and class discussion for the rest of the session.

Seminars, conferences and public lectures:

In addition, to the Taiwan politics studies class we will also arrange a series of

seminars and public lectures, which students are strongly encouraged to attend.

Reading List for Government and Politics in Taiwan

(O) Readings available online © Readings included in Politics of Modern Taiwan Collection For an introduction to Taiwan’s Domestic Politics and External Relations students

should look at the following books

Rigger, Shelley. 1999. Politics in Taiwan: Voting For Democracy. London:

Routledge.

Roy, Denny. 2003. Taiwan: A Political History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Fell, Dafydd Party Politics in Taiwan (London: Routledge, 2005).

Week 1 Introduction to Taiwanese Politics

Rigger, Shelley. 2002. “Political Science and Taiwan’s Domestic Politics: The State

of the Field.” Issues and Studies38, no 4: 49-92.

Chao, Linda and Ramon Myers. The First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the

Republic of China. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.1-18.

Roy, Denny.2003. Taiwan: A Political History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Chapter 1

Rubinstein, Murray, ed. 2003. Taiwan: A New History. New York: ME Sharpe. Chap

16. Week 2 Authoritarian Rule: The Politics of Martial Law Taiwan

Hague, Rod and Martin Harrup. 2001. Comparative Government and Politics.

Basingstoke: Palgrave. Chapter 3.

(O)& © Yun-han, Chu and Jih-wen Lin, ‘Political Development in 20th-Century

Taiwan: State-Building, Regime Transformation and the Construction of National

Identity,’ China Quarterly, No. 165, 2001, pp.102-129

Rigger, Shelley.1999. Politics in Taiwan: Voting For Democracy. London: Routledge.

P55-130.

Tien Hung-mao. 1989. The Great Transition: Political and Social Change in the

Republic of China. New York: ME Sharpe (skim all)

Roy, Denny. 2003. Taiwan: A Political History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Chapters 3-4

Rubinstein, Murray, ed. 2003. Taiwan: A New History. New York: ME Sharpe.

Chapters 10-11.

Tsang, Steve. 1993. “Chiang Kaishek and the Kuomintang’s Policy to Reconquer the

Mainland1949-1958.” In In the Shadow of China: Political Developments in Taiwan

Since 1949. Ed. Steve Tsang.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

(O) ©Bruce Dickson, ‘Lessons of Defeat: The Reorganization of the Kuomintang on

Taiwan, 1950-52,’ The China Quarterly, No. 133, 1993, pp.56-84.

Dickson, Bruce. 1996. The Kuomintang before Democratization: Organizational

Change and the Role of Elections. In Tien Hong-mao ed. Taiwan’s Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition: Riding the Third Wave. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe. Week 3 Transition to Democracy and Implications of democracy

Hague, Rod and Martin Harrup. 2001. Comparative Government and Politics.

Basingstoke: Palgrave. Chapter 2.

(O) ©Tun-jen, Cheng, ‘Democratizing a Quasi-Leninist Regime in Taiwan,’ World

Politics, 41, 4, 1989, pp. 471-499.

For Democracy, (London: Routledge, 1998), pp.1-33 & 178-193.

(O) © Linda Chao and Ramon Myers, ‘How Elections Promoted Democracy in

Taiwan under Martial Law,’ The China Quarterly, No. 162, Special Issue: Elections and Democracy in Greater China, 2000, pp. 387-409.

Taiwan’s Paradoxical Transition,’ Issues and Studies, 35, 6, 1999, pp.1-28.

(O) © John Higley, Tong-yi, Huang, and Tse-min, Lin, ‘Elite Settlements in Taiwan,’

Journal of Democracy, 9, 2, 1998, pp.148-164.

the Lee Teng-hui,’ in Wei-chin, Lee and T.Y. Wang (eds.), Sayonara to the Lee

Teng-hui Era: Politics in Taiwan, 1988-2000, (Lanham: University Press of America,

2002), pp. 63-89.

Religion and democracy

Democratic Society, 1945-2001,’ in Tun-jen, Cheng and Deborah Brown (eds.),

Religious Organizations and Democratization: Case studies from Contemporary Asia,

(Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2006), pp.109-135. © André Laliberté, ‘Buddhism for the Human Realm and Taiwanese Democracy,’ in

Tun-jen Cheng and Deborah Brown (eds.), Religious Organizations and

Democratization: Case studies from Contemporary Asia, (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe,

2006), pp. 55-82.

Policy implications of democratization

(O) ©Shui-yan, Tang and Ching-ping, Tang, ‘Democratization and the Environment:

Entrepreneurial Politics and Interest Representation in Taiwan,’ The China Quarterly,

No. 158, 1999, pp.350-366.

(O) © Dafydd Fell, ‘Political and media liberalization and political corruption in

Taiwan,’ The China Quarterly, No.184, 2005, pp. 875-93.

Organised Crime in the KMT and DPP Eras,’ in Dafydd Fell, Henning Kloeter and

Bi-yu, Chang (eds.), What has changed? Taiwan Before and After the Change in

Ruling Parties, (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006), pp. 61-82.

Week 4 Electoral Politics & Voting Behaviour

Hague, Rod and Martin Harrup. 2001. Comparative Government and Politics.

Basingstoke: Palgrave. Chapter 9.

©John Fuh-sheng, Hsieh, ‘Change and Continuity in Taiwan’s Electoral Politics,’ in

John Hsieh and David Newman (eds.), How Asia Votes, (New York: Chatham House

Publishers, 2002), pp.32-49.

©Gary Rawnsley, ‘Democratisation and election campaigning in Taiwan:

professionalizing the professionals,’ in Katrin Voltmer (ed.), Mass Media and

Political Communication in New democracies, (London: Routledge, 2006), pp.

133-151. Dafydd Fell, Party Politics in Taiwan: Chapter 3

Shelley Rigger. Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy. Ch 2 and 7

Tsong-jyi Lin. 2002. “Evolution of National Identity Issues in Democratizing

Taiwan” In Memories of the Future. National Identity Issues and the Search for a

New Taiwan. Ed Stephane Corcuff . Armonk: ME Sharpe.

(O)John Hsieh Fu-sheng & Emerson Niou. “Salient Issues in Taiwan’s Electoral

Politics.” http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/cgots

John Hsieh. 1996. “The SNTV System and its Political Implications.” In Taiwan’s

Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition, Riding the Third Wave. Ed Tien

Hung-mao. Armonk, New York: ME Sharpe.

Wang Yeh-lih. 1996. “The Political Consequences of the Electoral System: Single

Non-Transferable Voting in Taiwan.” Issues and Studies 32, no. 8:85-104.

Ho, Chin-ming. 1999. “Determinants of Voting Behaviour: An Analysis of the 1997

County Magistrate and City Mayoral Elections in Taiwan.” Issues and Studies 35, no.

2:148-64.

(O)Hsieh, John, Dean Lacy and Emmerson Niou. “Retrospective and Prospective

Voting in a One Party Dominant Democracy: Taiwan’s 1996 Presidential Election.”

Paper available at http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/cgots

Week 5 Party Politics in Taiwan

Hague, Rod and Martin Harrup. 2001. Comparative Government and Politics.

Basingstoke: Palgrave. Chapter 11.

Tun-jen, Cheng and Yung-ming, Hsu, ‘Issue Structure, the DPP's Factionalism and

Party Realignment,’ in Hung-mao, Tien (ed.), Taiwan's Electoral Politics and

Democratic Transition: Riding the Third Wave, (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1996), pp.

137-174. (O)Ching-hsin, Yu, ‘The Evolution of Party System in Taiwan, 1995~2004,’ Journal

of Asian and African Studies, 40, 1/2, 2005, pp.105-129.

(O)Chiung-chu, Lin, ‘The Evolution of Party Images and Party System in Taiwan,

1992-2004,’ East Asia: An International Quarterly, 23, 1, 2006, pp.27-46.

(O)Dafydd Fell, ‘Measuring and Explaining Party Change in Taiwan,’ Journal of East

Asian Studies, 5, 1, 2005, pp.105-133

(O)Hans Stockton, ‘Political Parties, Party Systems, and Democracy in East Asia,’

Comparative Political Studies, 34, 1, 2001, pp.94-120.

(O)Alexander Tan, Karl Ho, Kyung-Tae Kang and Tsung-Chi, Yu, ‘What if we Don’t

Party? Political Partisanship in Taiwan and Korea in the 1990s,’ Journal of Asian and

African Studies, 35, 1, 2000, pp.67-85.

Dafydd Fell, ‘Success and Failure of New Parties in Taiwanese Elections,’ China: An

International Journal, 3, 2, 2005, pp.212-239.

Fell, Dafydd, “Interparty Competition in Taiwan: Towards a New Party System,” in

Goldsten ed, Presidential Politics in Taiwan.

Single Party Studies

(O)John Fuh-sheng Hsieh, ‘Whither the KMT?’ China Quarterly No. 168, 2001, pp.

930-943.

(O)Shelley Rigger, ‘The Democratic Progressive Party in 2000: Obstacles and

Opportunities,’ China Quarterly No. 168, 2001, pp.944-959

Rigger, Shelley. 2001. Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party. Boulder: L. Rienner

(Parts)

(O)Tan, Alexander. 2002. The Transformation of the KMT.” Democratization 9, no.

3:149-164.

Week 6 Reading Week

Week 7 Competing National identities

©Thomas Gold, ‘Taiwan’s Quest for Identity in the Shadow of China,’ in Steve

Tsang (ed.), In the Shadow of China: Political Developments in Taiwan Since 1949,

(Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993), pp.169-192.

31, 1994, pp.49-69.

©Alan Wachman, ‘Competing Identities in Taiwan,’ in Murray Rubinstein (ed.), The

Other Taiwan: 1945 to the present, (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1994), pp.17-80.

©Chia-long, Lin, ‘The Political Formation of Taiwanese Nationalism,’ in Stéphane

Corcuff ed.), Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a

New Taiwan, (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2002), pp. 219-241.

©Christopher Hughes, ‘Post Nationalist Taiwan,’ in Michael Leifer (ed.), Asian

Nationalism, (London: Routledge, 2001), pp.63-81.

Survey, 44, 4, 2004, pp. 513-33.

©Jean-Pierre Cabestan, ‘Specificities and Limits of Taiwanese Nationalism,’ China

Perspectives, No. 62, 2005, pp.32-43.

Schubert, Gunter, “Taiwan’s Evolving National Identity since the DPP Takeover,” in

Presidential Politics in Taiwan

Measuring National Identities

©Szu-yin, Ho and I-chou, Liu, ‘The Taiwanese/Chinese Identity of the Taiwan People

in the 1990s,’ in Wei-chin, Lee and T.Y. Wang (eds.), Sayonara to the Lee Teng-hui

Era: Politics in Taiwan, 1988-2000, (Lanham: University Press of America, 2002), pp.

149-184. (O) ©Emerson Niou, ‘A New Measure of Preferences on the

Independence-Unification Issue in Taiwan,’ Journal of Asian and African Studies, 40,

1/2, 2005, pp.91-104.

(O) ©Stéphane Corcuff, ‘Taiwan’s New Mainlanders New Taiwanese?’ in Stéphane

Corcuff (ed.), Memories of the Future National Identity Issues and the Search for a

New Taiwan, (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2002), pp. 163-195.

Symbolic Dimensions of National Identity

©Robert Edmondson, ‘The February 28 Incident and National Identity,’ in Stéphane

Corcuff (ed.), Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a

New Taiwan, (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2002), pp. 25-46.

(O) ©Jeremy Taylor, ‘The Production of the Chiang Kai-shek Personality Cult,’ The

China Quarterly, No.185, 2006, pp. 96-110.

©Stéphane Corcuff, ‘History Textbooks, Identity Politics and Ethnic Introspection in

Taiwan,’ in Edward Vickers and Alisa Jones (eds.), History education and national identity in East Asia, (New York: Routledge, 2005), pp.133-169.

(O) ©Phil Deans, ‘Isolation, Identity and Taiwanese Stamps as Vehicles for Regime

Legitimation,’ East Asia: An International Quarterly, 22, 2, 2005, pp.8-30.

Week 8: National identities, democracy and Taiwan’s external relations

©Richard Bush, ‘Lee Teng-hui and Separatism,’ in Nancy Berkopf Tucker (ed.),

Dangerous Strait: The US-Taiwan-China Crisis, (New York: University of Columbia

Press, 2005), pp.70-92.

(O) ©Gunter Schubert, ‘Taiwan’s Political Parties and National Identity,’ Asian

Survey, 44, 4, 2004, pp. 534-54.

(O) ©Yu-shan, Wu, ‘Taiwan’s Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations,’ China

Journal, 53, 2005, pp.35-60. (O) ©John Fuh-sheng, Hsieh, ‘Ethnicity, National Identity and Domestic Politics in

Taiwan,’ Journal of Asian and African Studies 40, 1/2, 2005, pp.13-28.

(O) ©Yun-han, Chu, (2004), ‘Taiwan’s National Identity Politics and the Prospect of

Cross-Strait Relations,’ Asian Survey, 44, 4, 2004, pp. 484-512.

Chao Chien-min. 2002. “Republic of China’s Foreign Relations Under Lee Teng-hui:

A Balance Street.” In Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan’s Politics. Ed.

Bruce Dickson and Chao Chien-min. Armonk: ME Sharpe.

Dickson, Bruce. 2002. “Taiwan’s Challenge to US Foreign Policy.” In Assessing the

Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan’s Politics. Ed. Bruce Dickson and Chao Chien-min.

Armonk: ME Sharpe.

Yoshihida, Soeya. 2001. Taiwan in Japan’s Security Considerations. In Taiwan in the

Twentieth Century: A Retrospective View. Ed. Richard Edmunds and Steven

Goldstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zhao, Suisheng. 2002. “Reunification Strategy: Beijing Versus Lee Teng-hui.” In

Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan’s Politics. Ed. Bruce Dickson and Chao

Chien-min. Armonk: ME Sharpe.

Zhao Suisheng. Making Sense of the 1995-96 Crisis in the Taiwan Strait. In Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan and the 1995-1996 Crisis. Ed Zhao

Sui-sheng. London: Routledge.

Zhao Suisheng. 1999. “Economic Interdependence and Political Divergence.” Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan and the 1995-1996 Crisis. Ed Zhao

Sui-sheng. London: Routledge.

Dennis Hickey, Foreign Policy Making in Taiwan, Chapters 1 & 7

TY Wang, “Taiwan’s bid for UN membership,” in Edward Friedman ed. China’s Rise,

Taiwan’s Dilemmas and International Peace, 174-192. Chen Jie, “Civil Society, Grassroots aspirations and diplomatic isolation,” in Edward

Friedman ed. China’s Rise, Taiwan’s Dilemmas and International Peace, 130-146.

Swaine, Michael, “Managing Relations with the United States,” in Presidential

Politics in Taiwan

Yang Phillip, “Cross Strait Relations under the First Chen Shui-bian Administration,” in Presidential Politics in Taiwan

Week 9 Inner Party Democracy & Local and Factional Politics

Gallagher, Michael and Michael Marsh eds. 1988. Candidate Selection in

Comparative Perspective. London: Sage. Introduction.

Party Politics. 2001. Special Issue on Candidate Selection. Vol 7, no.3.

System,’ Party Politics, 7, 1, 2001, pp.103-118.

Parties,’ Journal of Electoral Studies, 13, 2, 2006, pp.167-198.

Local and Factional Politics

Studies, 35, 6, 1999, pp. 29-58.

Hung-mao, Tien (ed.), Taiwan's Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition: Riding

the Third Wave, (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1996), pp. 174-192.

Politics,’ Ethnology, 31, 2, 1992, pp.157-183.

SNTV: A Case Study of Taiwan,’ Party Politics, 11, 1, 2005, pp.59-77.

Power Transition,’ East Asia: An International Quarterly, 23, 1, 2006, pp.68-85.

Week 10 Social Welfare and Social Movements

Goodman, Roger, Gordon White and Huckju Kwon eds. 1997. The East Asian

Welfare Model: Welfare Orientalism and the State. London: Routledge. Chapter 1

Joseph Wong, Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea

Aspalter, Christian. “On the Road to a Taiwanese Welfare State: Political Parties

Capitalizing on the Issue of Social Welfare.” In Understanding Modern Taiwan:

Essays in Economics, Politics and Social Policy. ed. Christian Aspalter. Aldershot:

Ashgate.

Taiwan,’ American Asian Review, 21, 2, 2003, pp.57-90.

Fell, Dafydd, “Party Change on the Social Welfare Issue,” in Party Politics in Taiwan

Social Movements, Labour and Environmental Politics

Huang, Michael. 1992 “The Rise of Social Movements and Civil Protests.” In

Political Change in Taiwan. Ed. TJ Cheng & S Haggard. Boulder, Colorado, Lynne

Reinner.

Shu Weide. 2002. “Who Joined the Clandestine Political Organizations? Some

Preliminary Evidence from the Taiwan Independence Movement”. In Memories of the

Future. National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan.. Ed. Stephane

Corcuff. Armonk New York:ME Sharpe.

(O)Ku Kun-hui. 2005, “Rights to Recognition: Minority/Indigenous Politics in

Emerging Taiwanese Nationalism,” Social Analysis, Vol. 49: 2, pp. 99-121. (O) ©Kim Sunhyuk. 2000. “Democratization and Environmentalism: South Korea

and Taiwan in Comparative Perspective.” Journal of Asian and African Studies 35, no.

3:287-303.

Discontents,’ Asian Survey, 39, 6, 1999, pp.986-1008.

Ming-sho, Ho, ‘Neo-centrist Labour Policy in Practice: The DPP and Taiwanese

Working Class,’ in Dafydd Fell, Henning Kloeter and Chang Bi-yu (eds.), What has changed? Taiwan Before and After the Change in Ruling Parties, (Wiesbaden:

Harrassowitz, 2006), pp. 129-146.

Taiwanese Environmental Politics after the Power Transition,’ Journal of

Contemporary China, 14, 43, 2005, pp.339-352.

(O) Ho, Ming-sho, “Taiwan＇s State and Social Movements Under the DPP

Government, 2000-2004,＂ Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol.5, No.3, 2005

Week 11 Assessing Democratic Consolidation and Changes in Ruling Parties

Moody, Peter. 2002. “Some Problems in Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation.” In

Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan’s Politics. Ed Bruce Dickson and Chao

Chien-min. Armonk: ME Sharpe.

Democratization” in Dangerous Strait: The US-Taiwan-China Crisis, Ed Nancy

Tucker, pp.16-43.

Dafydd Fell, Henning Kloeter and Chang Bi-yu (eds.), What has changed? Taiwan

Before and After the Change in Ruling Parties, (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006).

Journal of Asian and African Studies, 35, 1, 2000, pp. 85-111.

the Image of a successful state after 9/11,’ East Asia: An International Quarterly, 20,

3, 2003, pp.16-38.

(O) © Cheng-yi, Lin and Wen-cheng, Lin, ‘Democracy, Divided National Identity, and Taiwan’s National Security,’ Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 1, 2, 2005, pp.69-87.

(access via www.tfd.org.tw )

Journal of Democracy, 1, 1, 2005, pp.77-102.

(access via www.tfd.org.tw )

Goldstein, Steven and Julian Chang, Presidential Politics: The Administration of

Chen Shui-bian (Norwalk: Eastbridge, 2008).