The growing concern over misinformation stems from its potential to significantly disrupt democratic governance. This study examines the case of Taiwan and employs a survey experiment featuring realworld misinformation examples to evaluate the effectiveness of factchecking corrections in reducing public misperceptions. Grounded in the dual-process theory from social psychology and informed by...
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Volume #29, Number #1
Volume #29, Number #1
Election data from the Central Election Commission show that the voter turnout rate of women in Taiwan is higher than that of men. However, few studies have explored the differences in voter turnout between women and men. To fill this gap in the literature, this study examines whether the gender gap in political knowledge affects the differences in voter turnout between women and men,...
Volume #29, Number #1
The prevailing portrayal of the 2024 self-coup in South Korea—marked by President Yoon Suk-yeol’s imposition of martial law—as either a byproduct of strong presidentialism or as Yoon’s opportunistic exploitation of concurrent crises to consolidate power lacks a deeper historical understanding of the self-coup. Alternatively, this study situates the self-coup within the broader historical...
Volume #28, Number #2
Since the 1990s, Taiwanese citizens’ unification-independence stances have been a critical variable in electoral and voting behavior studies. While scholars generally acknowledge that these stances are not entirely equivalent to state identity, national identity, or party identification, the degree of overlap among these dimensions remains underexplored. Many reports and commentaries continue...
Volume #28, Number #2
In the recent decade, the global retreat of democratic supportespecially among younger generations - and authoritarian diffusion becomes salient issues. In particular, the contested model of “democracy” comes into focus between the U.S. and China strategic competition. This study explores the democratic support in Taiwan, where it is often ranked as a top liberal democracy in Asia but also a...
Volume #28, Number #2
Confucius has been generally regarded by scholars outside the sinophone sphere as a moral teacher. In this article, I propose a particular theoretical framework (the two-foldness of human nature) to re-present Confucius’ political thought in a modern form. I start my re-presentation from a core phenomenon in political life, and argue that Confucius’ political thought aims to provide a radical...
Volume #28, Number #2
Volume #28, Number #1
The political mobilization effects of online communication have become a prominent political phenomenon in recent years. Given the convenience of internet usage, whether participants in political activities are more inclined to disseminate related political information online is a question worthy of exploration. This study focuses on the interaction between online echo chambers and political...
Volume #28, Number #1
This study attempts to explain the correlation between the level of corruption control and vaccination performance across countries, controlling for other important variables related to vaccination. The assumption is that countries with better corruption control are more likely to have better vaccination performance. Secondly, some past studies find that African countries generally performed...
Volume #28, Number #1
How do dyadic relations affect a state's human rights naming and shaming strategy? We argue that institutional and ideational factors influence democratic states' understanding of human rights values while in non-democratic states, political factors dominate states' calculus. Based on ingroup-outgroup perception, pairs of states interact differently in international human rights politics. Our...