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August 2013 - January 2016
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The following chapter presents a new typology in classifying political parties as business-firm and digital models, a combination of the business-firm party concept with the ‘digital party’ or ‘cyber party’. The country being examined, Japan, has traditionally had a top-down approach and an elitist model of democracy. Despite the fact, that Japan i...
For many, relations across the Taiwan Strait appears to be an unresolvable sovereignty-cum-security impasse in the Westphalian world. Drawing analogies and metaphors from East Asian medicine (EAM), we reconceive this apparent zero-sum impasse as an inner imbalance of the China–Taiwan ‘body’ and investigate the possible healing effects of some Taiwa...
We propose the logic of communitive action to analyze digitally networked social movements. Through an examination of Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, we offer an explanatory framework of community consciousness that elucidates a new type of leadership, and discuss crowdsourcing as a supplement to the theory of social...
This study uses a postcolonial approach to focus on the relations between the dominator/colonizer and the subordinated/colonized to reveal how the imperial legacy continues to influence the current relations between Japan and South Korea. The sources of current tensions between Japan and South Korea are threefold: First, the continuity of Japan's w...
This chapter explains the emerging characteristics of citizen-initiated political campaigning for the 2014 Taipei mayoral election as well as the 2016 presidential and legislative elections and aims to answer two questions. First, if citizen-initiated campaigning can be identified, then what is the mechanism of mobilization? This study explains the...
N. F. Batto , C. Huang , T. C. Tan , and G. W. Cox , Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context: Taiwan, Japan and Beyond, University of Michigan Press, 2016 - Volume 18 Issue 1 - Boyu Chen
This chapter introduces Taiwan’s first VAA—iVoter, including its application and ongoing development. The name iVoter is intended to refer to “I vote,” “informed vote,” “intelligent vote,” and “internet vote.” This system was first used for the 2012 eighth term Legislative Yuan elections. From October 2011, when the iVoter site officially went onli...
Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute has caused tensions among China, Japan, and Taiwan for decades. Although the Taiwanese government keeps a low profile on the dispute, the issue has flared up online discussion among Taiwan’s netizens. Many consider Taiwanese people more pro-Japan than other countries in East Asia, as elder generation living on the isl...
The core of the article is the results of the first transnational and interdisciplinary Russian-Taiwanese research project on the themes of national identity and online image of the countries. To obtain presents in the article results of the Russian and Taiwanese researchers have developed their own methodology for the analysis of unstructured text...
This paper attempts to provide a concrete response and analysis to the decline of Chinese identity in Taiwan. Our focus is on the problem of “Chinese identity” and how this identity is gradually fading, as is evident in long-term public opinion polls conducted by various academic institutions in Taiwan between 1992 and 2012. This paper provides two...
This paper contends that nationalism has always been a constant feature of Chinese politics. Indeed in order to understand the implications of China's nationalism vis-à-vis its emergence of China in global and regional politics, one has to examine the delicate equilibrium between state nationalism and ethnic nationalism. We put forward two hypothes...
Fish islands dispute has caused tensions among China, Japan and Taiwan for decades. Though Taiwanese government keeps a low profile on the dispute, the issue has flared up online discussion among Taiwan’s netizens. Many consider Taiwanese people more pro-Japan than other countries in East Asia, as elder generation living on the island shares nostal...
Prior literature has quite fully discussed about the effects of different electoral systems upon party systems. Some has paid attention to campaign strategies launched by political parties under different electoral systems. But few has explored the campaign promises made by individual legislators under different electoral systems. It’s even a vacuu...
Mainstream approaches perpetuate the Taiwan-China 'crisis'. They do so by following Cold-War concepts and prescriptions, despite the rise of new realities and new visions for cross-strait relations. We draw on Hirschman's identification of 'loyalty' and 'voice' to describe the mainstream discourse on cross-strait relations in Taiwan, mostly directe...
International Relations (IR) needs democratising. Currently, IR theorising remains under the hegemony of a singular worldview (`warre of all against all') with a singular logic (`conversion or discipline') for all actors and activities. This top-down, state-centric and exclusivist approach is fundamentally anti-democratic for a field of inquiry and...
International Relations (IR) needs democratising. Currently, IR theorising remains under the hegemony of a singular worldview ('warre of all against all') with a singular logic ('conversion or discipline') for all actors and activities. This top-down, state-centric, and exclusivist approach is fundamentally anti-democratic for a field of inquiry an...
