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· Thirty years of Taiwan's democratic experiment — institutions, power structures, and why democratic infrastructure is more than voting 11 articles

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Indigenous District Chiefs in Special Municipalities: The Elected Autonomous Office Preserved by the 2014 Municipal Upgrade Amendment

On December 25, 2014, the day Taoyuan was upgraded to a special municipality, the township mayor of Fuxing was about ...

34 citations 12 min

The Councilor System: Why It Differs from the Legislator System, and SNTV's 30 Years in Local Politics

In 2008, legislators switched to the single-member district two-vote system, while that same year's city and county c...

31 citations 12 min

Election Process: From Empty Ballot Box to Late-Night Counting, a Nationwide Democratic Ritual

Taiwan's elections are internationally renowned for their extremely transparent "manual counting". From the ceremonia...

27 citations 10 min

History of the Voting Rights Threshold: From Age 20 to Age 18, a Twenty-Year Unfinished Constitutional Journey

At 4:00 PM on November 26, 2022, poll workers across Taiwan began unsealing the ballot boxes for the constitutional a...

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Election Bulletins: The State-Distributed Baseline of Fairness, and the Split-Stream of Candidate-Funded Campaign Literature

That thick bulletin every voter receives before casting a ballot is the product of design evolution accumulated since...

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What Are the Nine-in-One Elections? Nine Offices, Four Upgrades, and Three Decades of Local Self-Governance Evolution

The term 'Nine-in-One' was first widely used in 2014, built on four waves of municipal restructuring — the 1967 upgra...

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The CEC System: A Counterintuitive Design of Dual Executive-Legislative Checks

The Central Election Commission's members are nominated by the Premier and confirmed by the Legislative Yuan. When th...

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