Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years
  • 2020/420 pages
  • Published in association with the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan:

The Ma Ying-jeou Years

Kharis Templeman, Yun-han Chu, and Larry Diamond, editors
Hardcover: $89.95
ISBN: 978-1-62637-904-6
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ISBN: 978-1-62637-911-4
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ISBN: 978-1-62637-941-1
During the Ma Ying-jeou presidency in Taiwan (2008–2016), confrontations over relations with mainland China stressed the country’s institutions, leading to a political crisis. Nevertheless, its democracy proved to be resilient. The authors of Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan explore key aspects of the complicated Ma era, including party politics and elections, the sources of Ma's governance challenges, changing public opinion, protest movements, and shifts in the regional balance of power.
Kharis Templeman is research fellow at the Hoover Institution and lecturer in the Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University. Yun-han Chu (1956-2023) was professor of political science at National Taiwan University, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, and president of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Also of interest:
Taiwan's Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Years by Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, and Kharis Templeman, eds.

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