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The authors note that Taiwan's gradual adaptions of U.S.-style political primary elections mark a significant trend among other developments in that island's "democratization". They appraise trends in the nominating processes among Taiwan's three major political parties for elections in 1995 and 1996. (DÜI-Sen)

Political parties select their candidates by different methods, sometimes differently in the same country to country an more differently from country to country. Taiwan's parties also have used various methods to choose their candidates. In recent years, both the ruling party and the major opposition have used primary elections to pick some but not all candidates. The authors examine and assess party primaries in Taiwan. (DÜI-Sen)

The Kuomintang in Taiwan introduced primary elections in 1989 for candidates for city, county and legislative positions. The author explores primary procedures, effects of primaries and implications for primaries in Taiwan based on experiences of primaries in the USA. (DÜI-Sen)