About the Book

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1. Taiwan’s Democracy Under Chen Shui-bian 1
6. Part 1. Politics and Public Opinion
7. 2. Party Politics and Elections: The Road to 2008 29
8. 3. The Democratic Progressive Party in Majoritarian Elections 51
9. 4. Partisanship and Public Opinion 73
10. 5. Polarized Politics and Support for Democracy 95
11. Part 2. Democratic Institutions in Action
12. 6. Executive-Legislative Relations Under Divided Government 123
13. 7. Horizontal Accountability and the Rule of Law 145
14. 8. Strengthening Constitutionalism 173
15. Part 3. State-Society Relations
16. 9. Civil Society and the Politics of Engagement 195
17. 10. Press Freedom and the Mass Media 219
18. 11. Restructuring State-Business Relations 241
19. 12. Democratic Progressive Party Clientelism: A Failed Political Project 267
20. Part 4. National Security and Cross-Strait Relations
21. 13. Depoliticizing Taiwan’s Security Apparatus 289
22. 14. Troubled Waters: The Conflict over Cross-Strait Relations 313
23. Bibliography 337
24. The Contributors 345
25. Index 348
26. About the Book 364