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.

List of contents

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 Post-industrialism: 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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Hsieh Cox, John Fuh-Sheng Cox Hsieh
• Assisted by: Robert Cox (Editor), John Fuh-sheng Hsieh (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032323534
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3232353-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Studies on Comparative Asian Politics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies