Fight for "Taiwan"? An Internet Survey of Political Purposes, Ideology, and Willingness to Fight

• Main Authors: WANG, TZU-CHING, 王子青
• Other Authors: YANG, SHIH-YUEH
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d6j838

碩士 === 南華大學 === 國際事務與企業學系亞太研究碩士班 === 107 === 　　The poll conducted by Taiwan Foundation for Democracy in 2018 asserted that nearly 70% of the Taiwanese people are willing to defend Taiwan, but this assertion gathered controversy. Supporters believed that this is the awakening of Taiwanese consciousness and the pride of democratic values; Critics, on the other hand, believed this is the result of inaccurate questioning, which cannot be over-interpreted. In this regard, this study argues that, the design of a questionnaire will certainly affect the results of that survey, but the willingness to defend Taiwan will always change given the different political purposes. In addition, people have different level of understandings regarding wars. People may support wars without realizing the costs. Republic of China is the most accepted consensus in Taiwan, which will earn more people to defend. In contrast, policies toward independence will be less received and the people who know more about the costs of wars will be less inclined to fight. Only a few exceptions to this are those with the anti-China ideology. This hypothesis will be verified through an online questionnaire survey.