| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 高階公共政策碩士班 === 107 === Drawing on empirical data and my personal political experiences, the thesis aims to examine whether local factions still have their impacts after Taiwan gradually turns itself as a mature democratic country. There are two local factions, Hsieh fraction and Yen faction in Yanpu Township. The rise and fall of these two factions affected by several factors such as the authoritarian politics of KMT, the growth of tang-wai (the name given to anti-KMT dissidents), and the collapse of Yanpu Farmers’ Association. After the collapsing of the Farmers’ Association, local factions lost the economic benefits to fight for, but they kept competing for political benefits of Township Office, and for simply “win” until now. Today, party politics is replacing the local faction politics after Hsieh faction join the DDP in Yanpu. The local factions can’t control their voters in large scale elections, but thy still play very important roles in the town/village-level elections. Although the local factions have the problem of the alternation of generation, they still have their impact in local elections.
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