Shelley Rigger
Biographic Data
| ID | 726173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelley Rigger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelley |
| FAMILY NAME | Rigger |
| SIGNATURE | RIGGER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Davidson College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China's Economic Rise
How did the once-secretive, isolated People’s Republic of China become the factory to the world? Shelley Rigger convincingly demonstrates that the answer is Taiwan. She follows the evolution of Taiwan’s influence from the period when Deng Xiaoping lifted Mao’s prohibitions on business in the late 1970s, allowing investors from Taiwan to collaborate with local officials in the PRC to transform mainland China into a manufacturing powerhouse. After …
Delimiting ‘Cross-Strait Studies’: Kua’an (跨岸) vs. Liang’an (兩岸)
International audience
Apsa Presidential Task Force Report on New Partnerships
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Studies on Taiwan’s Democracy and Democratisation
Throughout its long democratic transition and two decades of democratic functioning, Taiwan’s political development has attracted attention from many political scientists. This review of recent scholarship finds that while some works suffer from political bias, there is no shortage of high-quality academic work on this topic. Well-crafted assessments of Taiwan’s democratic performance vary in their conclusions, but critical assessments outnumber …
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
Kuomintang Agonistes: Party Politics in the Wake of Taiwan's 2016 Elections
Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia: Local and National Perspectives
1. Diverse Routes to Democracy: An Introduction, Lynn T. White III Part I: Variety among Asian Democracies and Democratizations 2. South Korean Democracy in Light of Taiwan, Erik Mobrand 3. Taiwan's Democratization and Mainland China's Future, Shelley Rigger 4. Strategic Hypocrisy: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Commerce in Archipelagic Southeast Asia, Justin V. Hastings 5. Democracy and Inequality in Thailand: The Rise of the Red Shirts, Erik Mart…
Voices of Manchu Identity, 1635-1935
The Perestroika Movement in American Political Science and its Lessons for Chinese Political Studies
Taiwan's Presidential and Legislative Elections
Taiwan's Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics, and "Taiwanese Nationalism"
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org
Party Politics and Taiwan's External Relations
Taiwan’s Best-Case Democratization
Taiwan in 2003: Plenty of Clouds, Few Silver Linings
Taiwan faced a difficult year in 2003. In early spring, SARS affected the island profoundly, but Taiwanese leaders were not able to leverage the outbreak into a chance at observer status in the World Health Organization. Although Taiwan's economic recession lifted somewhat, frustration over its continuing international isolation and domestic political deadlock led to calls for referendums on national policy issues and a new constitution. Both of …
Taiwan in 2002: Another Year of Political Droughts and Typhoons
Taiwan's streak of bad luck continued in 2002, as economic and political stagnation plagued the island. Cross-strait relations suffered from President Chen Shui-bian's mid-summer reference to "a country on each side of the Strait," although Beijing's sense that the long-term prospects for unification are improving permitted a moderate response. Taiwan's domestic political scene was troubled by partisan divisions and disagreements over how best to…
Politics in Taiwan
This book shows that Taiwan, unlike other countries, avoided serious economic disruption and social conflict, and arrived at its goal of multi-party competition with little blood shed. Nonetheless, this survey reveals that for those who imagine democracy to be the panacea for every social, economic and political ill, Taiwan's continuing struggles against corruption, isolation and division offer a cautionary lesson.This book is an ideal, one-stop …
The Education of Chen Shui-bian: Taiwan's experience of divided government
From its founding, Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party emphasized the role of the president. It advocated a variety of measures aimed at strengthening the presidency, including direct presidential elections. However, it was only when a DPP politician was elected president in 2000 that the party discovered just how weak Taiwan's president is. During his first year in office, President Chen Shui-bian repeatedly found himself stymied by an intrans…
From Opposition to Power: Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party
On March 18, 2000, Taiwan's voters stunned the world by choosing Chen Shui-bian, the candidate of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), to be their president. A host of new issues quickly became the subject of debate. What is the DPP? Where did it come from and what does it stand for? How will it use its newly won power? Will it risk war with mainland China in pursuit of independence? Addressing these questions, From Opposition to Po…
Regional Perspectives and Domestic Imperatives: Maintaining the status quo: What it means, and why the Taiwanese prefer it
The Taiwan Strait dilemma is usually posed as a clash between unification and independence. However, few Taiwanese support either of these options. Instead, about 90% of Taiwan residents want to maintain the status quo. Why do so many Taiwanese prefer to delay resolution of the island's status? Can efforts to find a resolution accommodate their substantive demands? A unification model that allowed Taiwan to retain its political autonomy and inter…
Taiwan's Turnaround
“The election of Chen Shui-bian as president of the Republic of China on Taiwan was a political earthquake of even greater magnitude than the quake that struck the island in September 1999.” The opposition party's “election revealed and reinforced changes that had been building beneath the surface of the Taiwanese political landscape for years.”
Taiwan rides the democratic dragon
Taiwan's young democracy has evolved at remarkable speed, but the island has yet to complete a peaceful transition alternating the parties in power. The March presidential election could completely reconfigure the island's political system and its relationship with mainland China
Machine politics and protracted transition in Taiwan
Rather than viewing the opposition presidential victory in 2000 as the end of Taiwan's decades‐long protracted transition, this article argues that the end of transition was marked by Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996. The dominant‐party Kuomintang (KMT) regime cobbled together on Taiwan since the 1940s went beyond top‐down authoritarianism, as the party's leadership designed a political machine that deeply penetrated local soci…
Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy
Voting for democracy. Learning to vote: The origins of Taiwan's electoral system. Party-state Authoritarianism in the Pre-reform era. Political Reform under Chiang Ching-kuo.The Watershed elections of 1989. The Lee Teng-hui Years (1990-1996). Continuing Challenges to Taiwan's Democracy
Taiwan
Essay| September 01 1999 Taiwan: Finding Opportunity in Crisis Shelley Rigger Shelley Rigger Shelley Rigger is the Brown Associate Professor of Political Science at Davidson College. Her book, Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy, was published by Routledge in August. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1999) 98 (629): 286–290. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1999.98.629.286 Views Icon Views…
Social Science and National Identity: A Critique
President Li, I was told.. .favors du Tai (an 'independent Taiwan') as opposed to Tai du ('Taiwan independence'). There is, I am told, a difference. The latter refers to what members in the opposition party... have advocated, namely an active policy of seeking and declaring Taiwan's independence as a sovereign state. The former is an adjective describing the process that is occurring today the evolution of Taiwan as an independent political entit…
Competing conceptions of Taiwan's identity: The irresolvable conflict in cross‐strait relations
Supporters of unification and Taiwan independence advocates view Taiwan's status through radically different logical frameworks. Unification supporters are guided by historical determinism. They believe that because Taiwan was part of China in the past, and because the island's residents have ancestral ties to mainland China, Taiwan is therefore an unalienable part of Chinese territory that must be brought under the control of the mainland Chines…
Studies on Taiwan’s Democracy and Democratisation
Throughout its long democratic transition and two decades of democratic functioning, Taiwan’s political development has attracted attention from many political scientists. This review of recent scholarship finds that while some works suffer from political bias, there is no shortage of high-quality academic work on this topic. Well-crafted assessments of Taiwan’s democratic performance vary in their conclusions, but critical assessments outnumber …
Taiwan in 2003: Plenty of Clouds, Few Silver Linings
Taiwan faced a difficult year in 2003. In early spring, SARS affected the island profoundly, but Taiwanese leaders were not able to leverage the outbreak into a chance at observer status in the World Health Organization. Although Taiwan's economic recession lifted somewhat, frustration over its continuing international isolation and domestic political deadlock led to calls for referendums on national policy issues and a new constitution. Both of …
Machine politics and protracted transition in Taiwan
Rather than viewing the opposition presidential victory in 2000 as the end of Taiwan's decades‐long protracted transition, this article argues that the end of transition was marked by Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996. The dominant‐party Kuomintang (KMT) regime cobbled together on Taiwan since the 1940s went beyond top‐down authoritarianism, as the party's leadership designed a political machine that deeply penetrated local soci…
Social Science and National Identity: A Critique
President Li, I was told.. .favors du Tai (an 'independent Taiwan') as opposed to Tai du ('Taiwan independence'). There is, I am told, a difference. The latter refers to what members in the opposition party... have advocated, namely an active policy of seeking and declaring Taiwan's independence as a sovereign state. The former is an adjective describing the process that is occurring today the evolution of Taiwan as an independent political entit…
The Perestroika Movement in American Political Science and its Lessons for Chinese Political Studies
Taiwan’s Best-Case Democratization
Taiwan in 2002: Another Year of Political Droughts and Typhoons
Taiwan's streak of bad luck continued in 2002, as economic and political stagnation plagued the island. Cross-strait relations suffered from President Chen Shui-bian's mid-summer reference to "a country on each side of the Strait," although Beijing's sense that the long-term prospects for unification are improving permitted a moderate response. Taiwan's domestic political scene was troubled by partisan divisions and disagreements over how best to…
The Education of Chen Shui-bian: Taiwan's experience of divided government
From its founding, Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party emphasized the role of the president. It advocated a variety of measures aimed at strengthening the presidency, including direct presidential elections. However, it was only when a DPP politician was elected president in 2000 that the party discovered just how weak Taiwan's president is. During his first year in office, President Chen Shui-bian repeatedly found himself stymied by an intrans…
Regional Perspectives and Domestic Imperatives: Maintaining the status quo: What it means, and why the Taiwanese prefer it
The Taiwan Strait dilemma is usually posed as a clash between unification and independence. However, few Taiwanese support either of these options. Instead, about 90% of Taiwan residents want to maintain the status quo. Why do so many Taiwanese prefer to delay resolution of the island's status? Can efforts to find a resolution accommodate their substantive demands? A unification model that allowed Taiwan to retain its political autonomy and inter…
Apsa Presidential Task Force Report on New Partnerships
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Kuomintang Agonistes: Party Politics in the Wake of Taiwan's 2016 Elections
Taiwan's Presidential and Legislative Elections
Party Politics and Taiwan's External Relations
Taiwan rides the democratic dragon
Taiwan's young democracy has evolved at remarkable speed, but the island has yet to complete a peaceful transition alternating the parties in power. The March presidential election could completely reconfigure the island's political system and its relationship with mainland China
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Taiwan’s Lee Teng-hui Complex
Essay| September 01 1996 Taiwan’s Lee Teng-hui Complex Shelley Rigger Shelley Rigger Shelley Rigger is an assistant professor of political science at Davidson College. Her article, “Political Opposition in Taiwan,” will appear in Political Oppositions in Industrializing Asia, edited by Garry Rodan (New York: Routledge, forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1996) 95 (602): 266–271.…
Competing conceptions of Taiwan's identity: The irresolvable conflict in cross‐strait relations
Supporters of unification and Taiwan independence advocates view Taiwan's status through radically different logical frameworks. Unification supporters are guided by historical determinism. They believe that because Taiwan was part of China in the past, and because the island's residents have ancestral ties to mainland China, Taiwan is therefore an unalienable part of Chinese territory that must be brought under the control of the mainland Chines…
Taiwan
Essay| September 01 1999 Taiwan: Finding Opportunity in Crisis Shelley Rigger Shelley Rigger Shelley Rigger is the Brown Associate Professor of Political Science at Davidson College. Her book, Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy, was published by Routledge in August. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1999) 98 (629): 286–290. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1999.98.629.286 Views Icon Views…
Social Science and National Identity: A Critique
President Li, I was told.. .favors du Tai (an 'independent Taiwan') as opposed to Tai du ('Taiwan independence'). There is, I am told, a difference. The latter refers to what members in the opposition party... have advocated, namely an active policy of seeking and declaring Taiwan's independence as a sovereign state. The former is an adjective describing the process that is occurring today the evolution of Taiwan as an independent political entit…
Taiwan's Turnaround
“The election of Chen Shui-bian as president of the Republic of China on Taiwan was a political earthquake of even greater magnitude than the quake that struck the island in September 1999.” The opposition party's “election revealed and reinforced changes that had been building beneath the surface of the Taiwanese political landscape for years.”
Taiwan rides the democratic dragon
Taiwan's young democracy has evolved at remarkable speed, but the island has yet to complete a peaceful transition alternating the parties in power. The March presidential election could completely reconfigure the island's political system and its relationship with mainland China
Machine politics and protracted transition in Taiwan
Rather than viewing the opposition presidential victory in 2000 as the end of Taiwan's decades‐long protracted transition, this article argues that the end of transition was marked by Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996. The dominant‐party Kuomintang (KMT) regime cobbled together on Taiwan since the 1940s went beyond top‐down authoritarianism, as the party's leadership designed a political machine that deeply penetrated local soci…
Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy
Voting for democracy. Learning to vote: The origins of Taiwan's electoral system. Party-state Authoritarianism in the Pre-reform era. Political Reform under Chiang Ching-kuo.The Watershed elections of 1989. The Lee Teng-hui Years (1990-1996). Continuing Challenges to Taiwan's Democracy
From Opposition to Power: Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party
On March 18, 2000, Taiwan's voters stunned the world by choosing Chen Shui-bian, the candidate of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), to be their president. A host of new issues quickly became the subject of debate. What is the DPP? Where did it come from and what does it stand for? How will it use its newly won power? Will it risk war with mainland China in pursuit of independence? Addressing these questions, From Opposition to Po…
Regional Perspectives and Domestic Imperatives: Maintaining the status quo: What it means, and why the Taiwanese prefer it
The Taiwan Strait dilemma is usually posed as a clash between unification and independence. However, few Taiwanese support either of these options. Instead, about 90% of Taiwan residents want to maintain the status quo. Why do so many Taiwanese prefer to delay resolution of the island's status? Can efforts to find a resolution accommodate their substantive demands? A unification model that allowed Taiwan to retain its political autonomy and inter…
Politics in Taiwan
This book shows that Taiwan, unlike other countries, avoided serious economic disruption and social conflict, and arrived at its goal of multi-party competition with little blood shed. Nonetheless, this survey reveals that for those who imagine democracy to be the panacea for every social, economic and political ill, Taiwan's continuing struggles against corruption, isolation and division offer a cautionary lesson.This book is an ideal, one-stop …
The Education of Chen Shui-bian: Taiwan's experience of divided government
From its founding, Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party emphasized the role of the president. It advocated a variety of measures aimed at strengthening the presidency, including direct presidential elections. However, it was only when a DPP politician was elected president in 2000 that the party discovered just how weak Taiwan's president is. During his first year in office, President Chen Shui-bian repeatedly found himself stymied by an intrans…
Taiwan in 2002: Another Year of Political Droughts and Typhoons
Taiwan's streak of bad luck continued in 2002, as economic and political stagnation plagued the island. Cross-strait relations suffered from President Chen Shui-bian's mid-summer reference to "a country on each side of the Strait," although Beijing's sense that the long-term prospects for unification are improving permitted a moderate response. Taiwan's domestic political scene was troubled by partisan divisions and disagreements over how best to…
Taiwan’s Best-Case Democratization
Taiwan in 2003: Plenty of Clouds, Few Silver Linings
Taiwan faced a difficult year in 2003. In early spring, SARS affected the island profoundly, but Taiwanese leaders were not able to leverage the outbreak into a chance at observer status in the World Health Organization. Although Taiwan's economic recession lifted somewhat, frustration over its continuing international isolation and domestic political deadlock led to calls for referendums on national policy issues and a new constitution. Both of …
Party Politics and Taiwan's External Relations
Taiwan's Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics, and "Taiwanese Nationalism"
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org
Taiwan's Presidential and Legislative Elections
The Perestroika Movement in American Political Science and its Lessons for Chinese Political Studies
Voices of Manchu Identity, 1635-1935
Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia: Local and National Perspectives
1. Diverse Routes to Democracy: An Introduction, Lynn T. White III Part I: Variety among Asian Democracies and Democratizations 2. South Korean Democracy in Light of Taiwan, Erik Mobrand 3. Taiwan's Democratization and Mainland China's Future, Shelley Rigger 4. Strategic Hypocrisy: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Commerce in Archipelagic Southeast Asia, Justin V. Hastings 5. Democracy and Inequality in Thailand: The Rise of the Red Shirts, Erik Mart…
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
Kuomintang Agonistes: Party Politics in the Wake of Taiwan's 2016 Elections
Studies on Taiwan’s Democracy and Democratisation
Throughout its long democratic transition and two decades of democratic functioning, Taiwan’s political development has attracted attention from many political scientists. This review of recent scholarship finds that while some works suffer from political bias, there is no shortage of high-quality academic work on this topic. Well-crafted assessments of Taiwan’s democratic performance vary in their conclusions, but critical assessments outnumber …
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