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Disparities of Urban-suburb Development & Political Factions: A Case Study to Local Elections of Taipei County in 1998

Yuang-Kuang Kao
2000 / 05
Volume 7, No.1

pp.53-85
10.6612/tjes.2000.07.01.53-85
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Abstract

This research is focused on the relationship between the disparitiesof urban-suburb development and political factions in TaipeiCounty.We hypothesize that the more urbanization of a town or avillage,the more political influence of a local faction in it.We usealmost all the avaliable indicators to measure the urbanization,which is the independent variable of this research.And,we calculatethe vote rate of every local political faction in 1998 TaipeiCounty Councilman election and Town Mayor election,as the indicesof their political influence,which is the dependent variable ofthis work.The finding of this research will be useful to systematizethe modeling of Taiwan local faction analysis.

Keywords

Taipei county

urbanization

disparities between urban-suburb

local faction influence

faction study

case study

county councilman election

town mayor election