Taiwan's Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan

ISBN-13: 9780367650346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 294 str.

Dafydd Fell

Opis

Examining the Green Party Taiwan (GPT) since its establishment through the aftermath of the most recent national elections in January 2020, this book investigates Taiwan’s most important movement party over the last two and a half decades.

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction, Research Questions and Formation  1. Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative politics in Taiwan  2. Frameworks and Data for Analysing Taiwan’s Green Parties  3. Beautiful accidents: The formation of Taiwan’s Green Parties  Part II. The Changing Impact and Human Face of the Green Parties  4. The Impact of the Green Parties in Taiwan: Elections, Media and the International  5. Who are the Green Parties? Leaders, Candidates and Supporters  Part III. The First Decade: 1996-2005  6. The GPT’s First Election in 1996: Professor Kao Catching Missiles  7. Almost breaking through in 1998: Is it OK to frequent sexual nightclubs?  8. Understanding the GPT’s quiet period: 1999-2005  Part IV. The Pan Han-sheng era: 2006-2012  9. Returning to elections between 2006 and 2009: The Wish of the Ladybird, Red-Green Alliance and Treetop Protest  10. The Struggle to become a Relevant Party: The 2010 and 2012 campaigns  Part V. The Lee Ken-cheng era 2013-2016  11. Reforms and the Local Breakthroughs and Setbacks of 2014: Unfinished Progress  12. The 2016 GPT SDP Alliance’s failed national breakthrough: The Lunchboxes and Teenage Idol election  Part VI. The Wang Hau-yu era: 2016-2020  13. A new model of local election campaigning in 2018: Winning or Selling its Soul?  14. The Teng Hui-wen or Wang Hau-yu GPT campaigns in 2020  Part VII. Conclusion  15. Conclusion: The aftermath, rebranding, returning to research questions and practical lessons.

O autorze

Dafydd Fell is Reader in Comparative Politics with special reference to Taiwan at SOAS University of London. He is also the Director of the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies. His first publication was Party Politics in Taiwan (Routledge, 2005), which analysed party change in the first 15 years of multi-party competition. He also authored Government and Politics in Taiwan (Rouledge, 2011) and co-edited Migration to and from Taiwan (Routledge, 2013); Social Movements in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou was published in 2017. His most recent co-edited book was Taiwan Studies Revisited, published in 2019.