Party Politics in Taiwan Revisited

Fell, Dafydd

Abstract

My first book, Party Politics in Taiwan: Party Change and the Democratic Evolution of Taiwan was published in August 2005. Now seems a good time to revisit this volume, as we are almost two decades from when I first started this research project. In this chapter I first discuss the origins of what became my PhD project on party change in the first decade of Taiwan’s multi-party politics. The book focused on three core questions about that period: How?, Why? and So what? In other words, it looks of how Taiwan’s parties changed ideologically, why they adjusted their issue positions, and the consequences of these changes. I briefly talk about the process of turning the PhD dissertation into a book manuscript, as well as how the book was reviewed in journals. After discussing the core findings of the book, I consider how the original research has stood the test of time and how the book has affected my subsequent research direction.

Citation

Fell, D. (2019). Party Politics in Taiwan Revisited. In D. Fell, & H.-H. M. Hsiao (Eds.), Taiwan Studies Revisited (178-196). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429259937-11

• Acceptance Date: Nov 13, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Aug 28, 2019
• Publication Date: Sep 17, 2019
• Deposit Date: Aug 2, 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 178-196
• Series Title: Research on Taiwan Series
• Book Title: Taiwan Studies Revisited
• ISBN: 9780367201722
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429259937-11
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