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| Title: |
Machine politics and protracted transition in Taiwan |
| Author: |
Rigger, Shelley |
| Appeared in: |
Democratization |
| Paging: | Volume 7 (2000) nr. 3 pages 135-152 |
| Year: |
2000 |
| Contents: |
Rather than viewing the opposition presidential victory in 2000 as the end of Taiwan's decades-long protracted transition, this article argues that the end of transition was marked by Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996. The dominant-party Kuomintang (KMT) regime cobbled together on Taiwan since the 1940s went beyond top-down authoritarianism, as the party's leadership designed a political machine that deeply penetrated local society, enticing ordinary Taiwanese into political networks whose ultimate function was to support the KMT party-state. The participants' long experience with iterated bargaining over rules of competition trained the KMT and its opponents to expect incremental changes in response to repeated demands. Unlike opposition leaders in rapid transitions, for whom the negotiation of a pact offers the first (and sometimes only) opportunity to help define the rules of politics, Taiwan's opposition politicians saw these conferences as rungs on a ladder. Taiwan's experience demonstrates that even the limited electoral competition allowed in a single-party authoritarian state creates powerful pressures for change. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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