The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board of Taiwanese Political Science Review have retracted the following article,
LE QUELLEC, Erwan. 2025. “Where and Who are the Populists in Taiwan? A Microeconomic Study of Populist Attitudes Based on Cross-Strait Individual Preferences.” Taiwanese Political Science Review 29 (2): 231-339. (DOI: 10.6683/TPSR.202512_29(2).0005...
How can we understand the practical dilemmas facing modern democracy, including economic inequality and the populist backlash? How can we overcome them? In recent years, Michael Sandel’s critique of neoliberalism has argued that the current wave of populism largely originates from a market-driven, meritocratic society shaped by globalization: market triumphalism has produced significant...
Producing multiple forms of value from cultural heritage poses a complex governance challenge. While the existing literature often highlights the importance of enhancing civic participation or strengthening contractual accountability, these approaches have produced limited outcomes. This is partly due to the commons-like characteristics of cultural heritage, which shares key features with...
This study adopts an ideational approach to examine the demand side of populism in Taiwan, using micro-level data from the 2016 and 2020 waves of the Taiwan Election and Democratization Study (TEDS). Beyond assessing conventional determinants of populist attitudes identified in Western and Latin American contexts, it investigates how Taiwan’s unique geopolitical cleavage—preferences on...
The expansion of empires in the nineteenth century accompanied the cross cultural spread of democratic ideals. This article identifies three existing approaches that seek to reconcile Alexis de Tocqueville’s democratic thought with his imperial advocacy, arguing that none has adequately resolved the moral dilemma inherent in his endorsement of empire. Through an analysis of administrative...
The rise of misogynistic politicians has become a salient issue in transnational political research. In Taiwan’s 2024 presidential election, Ko Wen-je—labeled by the media as a misogynistic candidate—garnered disproportionate support from young voters while facing lower support from female voters. This pattern presents a paradox: both young voters and female voters are typically associated...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
