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Independence vs. reunification issues and voting behavior in Taiwan: an analysis of gubernatorial and mayoral elections in 1994

Wen-chun Chen
1995 / 11
Volume 2, No.2

pp.99-136
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Abstract

Taiwan's democratization has directly challenged the KMT's auth-oritarian political regime and induced polarized national indentity con-frontation. This phenomena has become a major force in party politics in Taiwan. This paper has adopted the suvery datd as a result of a special research project commissioned by National Science Com-mission in 1994 to be reference of analysis. It is carried out on the basis of independence v.s. unification attitude of the constituency, comparing several recent suvery data distribution on the independence v.s. unification issue, and analyzing social basis of independence v.s. unification attitude, eithnic identuty, suport for political party, politi-cal trust, orientation of democratic values, and participation in elec-tion etc. as well as the relations between these variables and indepen-dence v.s. unification attitude, so as to ascertain whether independence v.s. unification issue being the key variable in the process of Taiwan's political democratization.

Keywords

Independence v.s. unification

Ethnic identity

Support for political party

Political trust

Orientation of democratical values

Participation in election