Signs of Change? An Analysis of Taiwan’s December 2009 Local Elections

Signs of Change? An Analysis of Taiwan’s December 2009 Local Elections

Under special circumstances created by a government decision to partly merge and upgrade six counties and county-level cities to special municipality status, local elections took place on December 5, 2009 in areas covering less than half of Taiwan’s population. The results are generally seen as an i...

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Main Author: Stefan Braig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-04-01
Series:Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
Subjects:
Political science
Taiwan
local elections
Party politics/Party work
320
Contemporary
Online Access:http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/206
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spelling doaj-e31447bf91ff463cbc654a55eea50ded2020-11-25T03:02:47ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Current Chinese Affairs1868-10261868-48742010-04-01391175197Signs of Change? An Analysis of Taiwan’s December 2009 Local ElectionsStefan BraigUnder special circumstances created by a government decision to partly merge and upgrade six counties and county-level cities to special municipality status, local elections took place on December 5, 2009 in areas covering less than half of Taiwan’s population. The results are generally seen as an important, though small, victory for the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) (Guomindang), however, has remained in a stable position, while the DPP still has a long way to go towards a comeback. http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/206Political scienceTaiwanlocal electionsParty politics/Party work320TaiwanContemporary
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Signs of Change? An Analysis of Taiwan’s December 2009 Local Elections
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
Political science
Taiwan
local elections
Party politics/Party work
320
Taiwan
Contemporary
author_facet Stefan Braig
author_sort Stefan Braig
title Signs of Change? An Analysis of Taiwan’s December 2009 Local Elections
title_short Signs of Change? An Analysis of Taiwan’s December 2009 Local Elections
title_full Signs of Change? An Analysis of Taiwan’s December 2009 Local Elections
title_fullStr Signs of Change? An Analysis of Taiwan’s December 2009 Local Elections
title_full_unstemmed Signs of Change? An Analysis of Taiwan’s December 2009 Local Elections
title_sort signs of change? an analysis of taiwan’s december 2009 local elections
publisher SAGE Publishing
series Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
issn 1868-1026
1868-4874
publishDate 2010-04-01
description Under special circumstances created by a government decision to partly merge and upgrade six counties and county-level cities to special municipality status, local elections took place on December 5, 2009 in areas covering less than half of Taiwan’s population. The results are generally seen as an important, though small, victory for the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) (Guomindang), however, has remained in a stable position, while the DPP still has a long way to go towards a comeback.
topic Political science
Taiwan
local elections
Party politics/Party work
320
Taiwan
Contemporary
url http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/206
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