First Chinese Democracy - Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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.

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• Authors: Linda Chao, Linda (Research Fellow Chao, Linda Myers Chao, Ramon H. Myers, Myers Ramon H.
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.07.2003
• EAN: 9780801872396
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7239-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Political Life in the Republic; Political Life in the Republic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Taiwan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political structure & processes, Central / national / federal government, Political structure and processes, Central government