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Taiwan's green parties : alternative politics in Taiwan -- Frameworks and data for analysing Taiwan's green parties -- Beautiful accidents : the formation of Taiwan's green parties -- The impact of the green parties in Taiwan : elections, media and the international -- Who are the green parties? Leaders, candidates and supporters -- The GPT's first election in 1996 : Professor Kao catching missiles -- Almost breaking through in 1998 : is it OK to frequent sexual nightclubs? -- Understanding the GPT's quiet period : 1999-2005 -- Returning to elections between 2006 and 2009 : the wish of the Ladybird, Red-Green alliance and treetop protest -- The struggle to become a relevant party : the 2010 and 2012 campaigns -- Reforms and the local breakthroughs and setbacks of 2014 : unfinished progress -- The 2016 GPT SDP alliance's failed national breakthrough : the lunchboxes and teenage idol election -- A new model of local election campaigning in 2018 : winning or selling its soul? -- The Teng Hui-wen or Wang Hau-yu GPT campaigns in 2020 -- Conclusion: The aftermath, rebranding, returning to research questions and practical lessons.

1. Social movements in Taiwan after 2008 : from the strawberries to the sunflowers and beyond / Dafydd Fell -- 2. Civic activism and protests in Taiwan : why size doesn't (always) matter / J. Michael Cole -- 3. Virtual ecologies, mobilization, and democratic groups without leaders : impacts of internet media on the Wild Strawberry Movement / Hsiao Yuan -- 4. A tale of two offshore islands : anti-casino movements in Penghu and Mazu / Tsai I-lun and Ho Ming-sho -- 5. Not wanting want : the anti-media monopoly movement in Taiwan / Rowena Ebsworth -- 6. This land is your land?, this land is MY land : land expropriation during the Ma Ying-jeou administration and implications on social movements / Ketty W. Chen -- 7. The Sunflower Movement : origins, structures and strategies of Taiwan's response against the black box / Andre Beckershoff -- 8. The China factor and Taiwan's civil society organizations in the Sunflower Movement : the case of the Democratic Front against the cross-strait service trade agreement / Hsu Szu-chien -- 9. The evolution of the anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan since 2008 / Simona Grano -- 10. The revival of Taiwan's Green Party after 2008 / Dafydd Fell and Peng Yen-wen -- 11. Rising from the ashes? : the trade union movement under Ma Ying-jeou's regime / Chiu Yu-bin -- 12. A team player pursuing its own dreams : rights-claim campaign of Chinese migrant spouses in the migrant movement before and after 2008 / Lara Momesso and Isabelle Cheng -- 13. All our relations : indigenous rights movements in contemporary Taiwan / Scott Simon -- 14. Uneasy alliance : state feminism and the conservative government in Taiwan / Huang Chang-ling.

In the spring of 2014, the Sunflower Movement's three-week occupation of the Legislative Yuan brought Taiwan back to international media attention. It was the culmination of a series of social movements that had been growing in strength since 2008 and have become even more salient since the spring of 2014. Social movements in Taiwan have emerged as a powerful new actor that needs to be understood alongside those players that have dominated the literature such as political parties, local factions, Taishang, China and the United States. This book offers readers an introduction to the development of these social movements in Taiwan by examining a number of important movement case studies that focus on the post 2008 period. The return of the Kuomintang (KMT) to power radically changed the political environment for Taiwan's civil society and so the book considers how social activists responded to this new political opportunity structure. The case chapters are based on extensive fieldwork and are written by authors from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches; in some cases authors combine being both academics and activists themselves. Together, the chapters focus on a number of core issues, providing the book with four key aims. Firstly, it investigates the roots of the movements and considers how to best explain their emergence. Secondly, it examines the development trajectories of these movements. Thirdly, it looks at the best way to explain their impact and development patterns, and finally it assesses their overall impact, questioning whether they can be regarded as successes or failures. Covering a unique range of social movement cases, the book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in Taiwanese society and politics, as well as social movements and civil society.

In 1991 Taiwan held its first fully democratic election. This first single volume of party politics in Taiwan analyzes the evolution of party competition in the country, looking at how Taiwan's parties have adjusted to their new multi-party election environment. It features key chapters on:the development of party politics in Taiwan the impact of party change on social welfare, corruption and national identity party politics in the DPP era. Including interviews with high-ranking Taiwanese politicians and material on the 2004 Presidential election,

This article reviews the key political developments in Taiwan in 2023. Although no elections were held this year, elections dominated the political agenda. Once the candidates were selected, the main parties debated a range of issues, including Taiwan's international relations, the state of the economy, and nuclear power.

Taiwan has experienced a number of party splits and attempted mergers since democratization. These have played a critical role in the development of the country's party system. While a number of studies have looked at the emergence of Taiwan's splinter parties, party mergers have not received academic attention. This study aims to systematically examine the process of party mergers and takeovers. We examine four cases of attempted mergers and takeovers. In each case, we focus the analysis around three core questions: (1) How should we best classify the actual outcomes? (2) How we can best explain the variation in outcomes? (3) How can we assess the success of merger/takeover attempts? Unlike earlier studies, we examine a variety of merger outcomes rather than just successful cases. In addition to mergers, we propose the terms negotiated takeovers and hostile takeovers. Our classification scheme is based on relative party power and the inter-party relationship. To explain the variation in outcome, we applied a framework stressing the interplay of contextual, inter-party and inner-party factors. We found key contextual variables were electoral results, relative party sizes and the electoral system. The most important inter-party variables were ideological proximity and inter-party trust following successful cooperation. Lastly, the inner-party balance of power was also critical, particularly, the strength of leaders with favorable attitudes toward the merger project. We assess the success and failure of merger/takeover attempts with reference to election results, post-merger party unity and whether the post-takeover relationship was cooperative.