Policymaking in Taiwan's Semi-Presidentialism: A Case Study of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA)
In: Journal of contemporary East Asia studies, Volume 4, Issue 2, p. 37-65
ISSN: 2476-1036
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In: Journal of contemporary East Asia studies, Volume 4, Issue 2, p. 37-65
ISSN: 2476-1036
In: The developing economies: the journal of the Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, Japan, Volume 40, Issue 3, p. 359-380
ISSN: 1746-1049
This article will study how the existence of KMT party‐owned enterprises (POEs) and their development are related to Taiwan's democratization. POEs are profit‐making enterprises managed by the KMT, the former ruling party. All previous studies about the relationship between democratization and POEs only draw attention to the economic resource aspects of POEs. But the POEs were also KMT political resources in the form of enterprises and became policy tools to the ruling party. This study will argue that the existence of the POEs was a factor that maintained the KMT government and supported its stable management during the process of democratization. Moreover, POEs as political resources enabled Lee Teng‐hui as KMT chairman to demonstrate strong leadership and push ahead with the completion of democratization. But Lee's political mobilization of POEs expanded money politics and perpetuated these enterprises as one of the "authoritarian legacies" in Taiwan's democratic politics.
In: The developing economies, Volume 40, Issue 3, p. 359-380
ISSN: 0012-1533
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In: Hōsei-kenkyū: Journal of law and politics, Volume 77, Issue 1, p. 65-141
ISSN: 0387-2882
In: Kyoto CSEAS series on Asian studies, 2
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