Jih-Wen Lin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4383628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jih-Wen Lin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jih-Wen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lin |
| SIGNATURE | LIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How are the powers of the president decided? Vote trading in the making of Taiwan’s semi-presidential constitution
To establish an unambiguous source of accountability, a semi-presidential constitution can either allow the president to dominate government formation and dissolve the parliament without a prior vote of no confidence being passed or it can reverse the arrangement of these powers. Accordingly, Taiwan is an unusual case of semi-presidentialism because the president can unilaterally appoint the premier but cannot actively dissolve the parliament, so…
Taiwan’s Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Years
A reassessment of the Chen Shui-bian era (2000-2008), a crucial period in Taiwan's political development
Using prediction markets of market scoring rule to forecast infectious diseases: A case study in Taiwan
Except confirmed cases of dengue fever, EPM provided accurate, continuous and real-time predictions of four indicators of three infectious diseases for the target week in Taiwan and outperformed the historical average data of infectious diseases
A Veto Player Theory of Policymaking in Semipresidential Regimes: The Case of Taiwan's Ma Ying-Jeou Presidency
Why did the unified government led by Taiwan's president Ma Ying-jeou experience gridlock? In this article, I answer this question by modifying the veto player theory to explain how policies are made in Taiwan's semipresidential system, in which the president can unilaterally appoint a premier who is accountable to the national legislature. Given this constitutional design, the premier represents the president rather than the legislature, so the …
The endogenous change in electoral systems: The case of SNTV
Electoral systems shape party systems by constraining voters’ choices, but the choices voters make may also compel political parties to change the electoral system. Thus, an electoral system changes endogenously if the voters’ choices it induces vary over time, and political parties are motivated by the voters’ new choices to modify the electoral system. This article applies this logic to explain the change in the single non-transferable vote (SN…
Electoral Systems Today: The Politics of Reform in Japan and Taiwan
For decades, Japan and Taiwan had combined developmentalism with electoral competitions held under the single nontransferable vote (SNTV), a peculiar system responsible for their perennial one-party dominance. When the cost of maintaining this system became too high to bear, some politicians of the ruling party began to promote a mixed formula that assigns a high percentage of seats to be elected by first-past-the-post (FPTP), hoping to cultivate…
Institutionalized Uncertainty and Governance Crisis in Posthegemonic Taiwan
March 20, 2000, constituted a milestone in Taiwan's modern political history. That day its electorate chose as president Chen Shui-bian, the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who had been defamed as an antistate rebel only a decade before. The election also marked the end of the forty-year-plus hegemony of the Kuomintang (KMT, or Nationalists). That the DPP ascended to the island's supreme political office in spite of its rival'…
Electoral Systems Today: The Politics of Reform in Japan and Taiwan
For decades, Japan and Taiwan had combined developmentalism with electoral competitions held under the single nontransferable vote (SNTV), a peculiar system responsible for their perennial one-party dominance. When the cost of maintaining this system became too high to bear, some politicians of the ruling party began to promote a mixed formula that assigns a high percentage of seats to be elected by first-past-the-post (FPTP), hoping to cultivate…
The endogenous change in electoral systems: The case of SNTV
Electoral systems shape party systems by constraining voters’ choices, but the choices voters make may also compel political parties to change the electoral system. Thus, an electoral system changes endogenously if the voters’ choices it induces vary over time, and political parties are motivated by the voters’ new choices to modify the electoral system. This article applies this logic to explain the change in the single non-transferable vote (SN…
Institutionalized Uncertainty and Governance Crisis in Posthegemonic Taiwan
March 20, 2000, constituted a milestone in Taiwan's modern political history. That day its electorate chose as president Chen Shui-bian, the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who had been defamed as an antistate rebel only a decade before. The election also marked the end of the forty-year-plus hegemony of the Kuomintang (KMT, or Nationalists). That the DPP ascended to the island's supreme political office in spite of its rival'…
Electoral Systems Today: The Politics of Reform in Japan and Taiwan
For decades, Japan and Taiwan had combined developmentalism with electoral competitions held under the single nontransferable vote (SNTV), a peculiar system responsible for their perennial one-party dominance. When the cost of maintaining this system became too high to bear, some politicians of the ruling party began to promote a mixed formula that assigns a high percentage of seats to be elected by first-past-the-post (FPTP), hoping to cultivate…
A Veto Player Theory of Policymaking in Semipresidential Regimes: The Case of Taiwan's Ma Ying-Jeou Presidency
Why did the unified government led by Taiwan's president Ma Ying-jeou experience gridlock? In this article, I answer this question by modifying the veto player theory to explain how policies are made in Taiwan's semipresidential system, in which the president can unilaterally appoint a premier who is accountable to the national legislature. Given this constitutional design, the premier represents the president rather than the legislature, so the …
The endogenous change in electoral systems: The case of SNTV
Electoral systems shape party systems by constraining voters’ choices, but the choices voters make may also compel political parties to change the electoral system. Thus, an electoral system changes endogenously if the voters’ choices it induces vary over time, and political parties are motivated by the voters’ new choices to modify the electoral system. This article applies this logic to explain the change in the single non-transferable vote (SN…
Using prediction markets of market scoring rule to forecast infectious diseases: A case study in Taiwan
Except confirmed cases of dengue fever, EPM provided accurate, continuous and real-time predictions of four indicators of three infectious diseases for the target week in Taiwan and outperformed the historical average data of infectious diseases
Taiwan’s Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Years
A reassessment of the Chen Shui-bian era (2000-2008), a crucial period in Taiwan's political development
How are the powers of the president decided? Vote trading in the making of Taiwan’s semi-presidential constitution
To establish an unambiguous source of accountability, a semi-presidential constitution can either allow the president to dominate government formation and dissolve the parliament without a prior vote of no confidence being passed or it can reverse the arrangement of these powers. Accordingly, Taiwan is an unusual case of semi-presidentialism because the president can unilaterally appoint the premier but cannot actively dissolve the parliament, so…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works)