| Summary: | 碩士 === 東吳大學 === 政治學系 === 93 === Political democratization is an important area in the study of comparative government and politics. There’ve been a lot of literatures discussing in depth about the local factions, political opposition, national identity, and voting behaviors in Taiwan’s political democratization since 1988. But it’s just begun for the study of the transformation of civil-military relations in Taiwan’s political democratization. The purpose of this thesis is to understand the interacted transformation of Taiwan’s civil-military relations in the process of political democratization, as well as the role and impact of military in this process.
This thesis used the methodology of analytic narrative, concentrating on historic facts, its explanation and the context of historic events. On the other hand, this thesis tried to extract the rational basis behind the events due to the purpose of analysis. This thesis divided the transformation of Taiwan’s civil-military relations into three stages: The civil-military relations in the period of martial law (1949-1987), the transformation of civil-military relations in the process of democratization (1988-1999), and the validation of civil-military relations after the rotation of political parties. This thesis analyzed in depth the important events and people about civil-military relations in each stage, in order to discover the context of Taiwan’s transformation of civil-military relations.
Finally, this thesis categorized 11 important factors in analyzing transformation of civil-military relations. From the view points of “parties-military relations” and “politics-military relations”, we found that Taiwanese army has transformed from “revolutionary army” in the authoritarian party-state of the period of martial law, to “national defense army” in the democratic consolidation state after the rotation of political parties. But there’re still some uncertain factors in Taiwan’s civil-military relations in the future, such as cross-strait relation, the boundary of civil-military relations, and the mutual trust. These factors could affect Taiwan’s political democratization and the stability of democratic consolidation.
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