Table Of ContentDemocratic 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.
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.
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.
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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. As a
study of Taiwan’s democratic governance, this book will be of interest to
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Contributors viii
Figures xii
Tables xiii
Introduction 1
JOHN FUH-SHENG HSIEH AND ROBERT HENRY COX
1 Regime Type and Governance: The Case of Taiwan 16
JOHN FUH-SHENG HSIEH
2 Managing Voting for Democracy in Taiwan 31
I-CHOU LIU
3 When Democracy Meets Bureaucracy: Studying Reforms of
Taiwan’s Civil Service Since Democratization in the Late 1980s 46
DON-YUN CHEN, HSIANG-KAI DONG, AND YANG-CHUNG CHEN
4 The Mutinous Mutation of the Developmental State in
Taiwan Revisited 63
YUN-PENG CHU
5 From Developmentalism to Postindustrialism: The Evolution
of the Welfare State in Taiwan 78
JOSEPH WONG
6 Environmental Protection after Taiwan’s Democratic
Consolidation: Is Democracy Working for the Environment? 94
DAFYDD FELL
vi Contents
7 From Political Democratization to the Claim for Social Justice 110
WAN-YING YANG
8 When Democracy Meets the COVID-19 Pandemic: Taiwan’s
Experience 129
WEI-TING YEN AND LI-YIN LIU
9 Charting the Way Forward: Taiwan’s Civil–Military Relations
after 2016 144
WEI-CHIN LEE
10 Taiwan’s Domestic Politics, Economic Development and
National Security, and Their Links to Foreign Policy and
Democratization 163
JOHN F. COPPER
11 David vs. Goliath: Taiwan’s Policy toward China 181
T.Y. WANG
Index 197
Acknowledgments
All the chapters included in this book except the Introduction were presented at
a conference on democratic governance in Taiwan held by the Walker Institute of
the University of South Carolina on June 4–6, 2021. We thank the participants of
the conference for their comments on these articles. In particular, we are grateful
to Hans Stockton, Vincent Wang, Katherine Barbieri, Eric Chang, Yu-shan Wu,
and Neal Woods for their helpful comments and suggestions. We also express our
gratitude to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washing-
ton, DC, and the Walker Institute for their support.
Contributors
Don-yun Chen is Professor in the Department of Public Administration at
National Chengchi University in Taiwan (Republic of China). He received
his PhD in political science from the University of Rochester in 1997. His
research interests span from democratic governance, e-governance, and public
policy analysis and management. He is the founder of the Taiwan Government
Bureaucrats Survey (TGBS) where various research topics of Taiwanese civil
service, such as Public Service Motivation (PSM) and National Examination
System, are studied through questionnaires and interviews. His works can be
found in journals such as Public Administration, International Public Management
Journal, and the Review of Public Personnel Administration.
Yang-chung Chen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Public Administra-
tion at National Chengchi University. His research interests include demo-
cratic governance, bureaucracy, citizen participation, and Q methodology. His
most recent publication conducts a mixed-method study with Q methodology
and a large-sample survey to explore how public servants pursue a successful
career in Taiwan. His publications can be found in various Taiwan Social Sci-
ence Citation Indexed journals such as Public Administration & Policy and the
Taiwan Journal of Public Health. His dissertation focuses on the relationship
and influence between bureaucratic responsiveness and public participation
practices.
Yun-Peng Chu holds a PhD degree in economics from the U niversity of Mary-
land. Currently, he is University Chair Professor, School of Big Data Manage-
ment, Soochow University, Taiwan. His former positions include Minister of
State, Executive Yuan, ROC; Chairman of Board, Taiwan Insurance G uaranty
Fund; President, Jin-Wen University of Science and T echnology; Director,
Research Center for Taiwan Economic Development, National Central Uni-
versity; Director, Sun Yat-Sen Institute of Social Sciences and Philosophy,
Academia Sinica. His journal publications include those in the A merican Eco-
nomic Review, Journal of Development Economics, and Southern Economic Journal.
He is the author and editor of books on economic development and income
distribution, high-tech drive and lost decades in East Asia, and Sino-U.S. trade
conflicts.
Contributors ix
John F. Copper is the Stanley J. Buckman Professor (Emeritus) of International
Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of more
than thirty books on Taiwan and U.S.-China/Taiwan policy, including the
seventh edition of Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? (Routledge) and Taiwan’s
Politics in Action (World Scientific).
Robert Henry Cox is Professor of Political Science at the University of South
Carolina. His research and teaching focuses on governance and public policy
issues in European countries and the European Union. From 2005 to 2017, he
was the coeditor of Governance, one of the leading journals in the field of public
administration and public policy.
Hsiang-kai Dong is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Adminis-
tration at National Chengchi University. His research specialty includes pub-
lic sector human resource management; organizational behavior, risk, and
decision-making; and citizen participation. His most recent publications deal
with the effects of the unique settings of National Civil Service Examinations
on recruiting the most “appropriate” civil servants for the society. His publi-
cations can be seen in the Review of Public Personnel Administration, Adminis-
tration & Society, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, International Journal of
Environmental Research, and Public Health, and various Taiwan social science
citation indexed journals.
Dafydd Fell is Reader in Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and
International Studies of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
University of London. He is also the Director of the SOAS Centre of Taiwan
Studies. He has published numerous articles on political parties and election-
eering in Taiwan. His first book was Party Politics in Taiwan (Routledge, 2005),
which analyzed party change in the first fifteen years of multi-party competi-
tion. His second book was Government and Politics in Taiwan (Routledge, 2011)
and the second edition was published in early 2018. His latest single authored
book is Taiwan’s Green Parties (Routledge, 2021).
John Fuh-sheng Hsieh is currently Professor of Political Science at the University
of South Carolina. His teaching and research interests include rational choice
theory, constitutional choice, electoral systems, electoral behavior, political
parties, democratization, and foreign policy. His works have appeared in many
journals and as chapters in a number of books. He is the author of Party-List
Proportional Representation [in Chinese] and Positive Political Theory [in Chinese]
and editor or coeditor of Confucian Culture and Democracy and How Asia Votes.
Wei-Chin Lee, Professor of Wake Forest University, has published several books,
including Taiwan’s Political Re-Alignment and Diplomatic Challenges (edited, 2019)
and articles in the American Journal of Chinese Studies, Asian Affairs, Asian
P erspective, Asian Security, Asian Survey, Journal of Asian and African Studies,
Journal of Chinese Political Science, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of
Comparative Communism, Journal of Economics and International Relations,
