The Impact of Electoral System Reform on Taiwan’s Local Factions

In 2004, the single non-transferable vote (SNTV) was abolished in Taiwan. The SNTV had long been seen as a major factor in the sustenance of county- and township-level clientelist networks (“local factions”). It was also associated with phenomena such as extremism, candidate-centred politics, vote-b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christian Göbel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
Subjects:
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Online Access:http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/534