Speaker:
Dafydd Fell, The Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London

Since the lifting of martial law in 1987 two political parties, the Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Party, have dominated Taiwan's party system. The party system has been much more stable than many other Asian democracies, such as South Korea or Japan. However there have been periods in which other challenger parties have won significant numbers of parliamentary seats and affected the political agenda. Professor Fell assesses the impact of these new parties on the party system and offers some explanations for their electoral success and failures.

The talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Taiwan Studies, the Department of East Asiant Languages & Cultural Studies, and the Department of Political Science.

PS 595 Credit