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...
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Volume #28, Number #2
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 #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...
Volume #27, Number #2
Party labels have traditionally been significantly important in elections. However, the recent influence of personalized politics has resulted in the de-labeling of candidates, even in grassroots-level village chief elections. This study explores the impact of (de) labeling on election outcomes, drawing from research on anti-party sentiment, negative partisanship, and the Citizen-Politician...
Volume #27, Number #2
In 2020, the Chinese government launched the Program of New Infrastructure Construction, an industrial policy aimed at establishing China as a global leader in high-technology manufacturing. Unlike previous industrial policies, this program involved a significant number of private high-technology companies (HTCs). Given that China's economic model is characterized by state capitalism, why has...
Volume #27, Number #2
This study explores how local governments in China maintain a role in policy implementation and influence outcomes despite the central government's greater control under Xi Jinping's leadership. By analyzing the case of a new industrial policy for nurturing “Specialized Refinement, Differential, and Innovation (SRDI)” small giant enterprises, it shows how regions, regarded as competing...
Volume #27, Number #1
National New Areas are state-level, centrally planned metropolises designed to fulfill the Chinese government’s strategic goals of economicdevelopment, environmental sustainability, institutional reform, and the opening of China’s economy to foreign and overseas Chinese investment. President Xi Jinping’s transformative model of balanced city-regional development, Xiong’an, was designated the...