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Democratizing the Quasi-Leninist Regime in Taiwan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2011

Tun-jen Cheng
Tun-jen Cheng
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University of California
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Abstract

Analysis of the process of democratization should focus not on socioeconomic change, but on the origin and development of political opposition and on the structure of political bargaining between the regime and its challengers. The recent democratic breakthrough in Taiwan is attributable to the capabilities of the political opposition in agenda setting, the shifting of bargaining arenas, and the creation of incentives for the reformist leaders of the regime to play the game. Democratization in Taiwan will continue because the ruling party has been able to maintain its dominant position in new political frameworks.

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World Politics , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , July 1989 , pp. 471 - 499
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1989

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