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.
Author(s): John Fuh-sheng Hsieh, Robert Henry Cox
Series: Routledge Studies on Comparative Asian Politics
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 221
City: London
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 Regime Type and Governance: The Case of Taiwan
2 Managing Voting for Democracy in Taiwan
3 When Democracy Meets Bureaucracy: Studying Reforms of Taiwan’s Civil Service Since Democratization in the Late 1980s
4 The Mutinous Mutation of the Developmental State in Taiwan Revisited
5 From Developmentalism to Postindustrialism: The Evolution of the Welfare State in Taiwan
6 Environmental Protection After Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation: Is Democracy Working for the Environment?
7 From Political Democratization to the Claim for Social Justice
8 When Democracy Meets the COVID-19 Pandemic: Taiwan’s Experience
9 Charting the Way Forward: Taiwan’s Civil-Military Relations After 2016
10 Taiwan’s Domestic Politics, Economic Development and National Security, and Their Links to Foreign Policy and Democratization
11 David Vs. Goliath: Taiwan’s Policy Toward China
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