Yun-Han Chu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3717634 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yun-Han Chu |
| PRENOMES | Yun-Han |
| SOBRENOME | Chu |
| ASSINATURA | CHU Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, Taipei; and National Taiwan University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 627 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Voices from within
Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) emphasis on whole process people’s democracy and democracy with Chinese characteristics, the type of democracy desired by the Chinese people remains debatable. Using two nationwide surveys conducted in 2015 and 2019, this study examines how ordinary Chinese people view democracy during Xi Jinping’s new era. Acknowledging the constraints of conventional methodologies, this study adopts a novel approach t…
Maritime Territorial Disputes and China’s Soft Power in East Asia
Territorial disputes over the East and South China Sea have been an issue of growing policy concern in East Asia in recent years. These maritime territorial disputes, as the authors argue in this study, constitute a contextual factor undermining China’s soft power in East Asia. More specifically, this study quantitatively demonstrates that all else equal, citizens are less likely to take a positive view of China’s influence on their respective co…
Trading Democracy for Governance
Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan
During the Ma Ying-jeou presidency in Taiwan (2008–2016), confrontations over relations with mainland China stressed the country’s institutions, leading to a political crisis. Nevertheless, its democracy proved to be resilient. The authors of Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan explore key aspects of the complicated Ma era, including party politics and elections, the sources of Ma's governance challenges, changing public opinion, protest movements, a…
The Decline of the Western-Centric World and the Emerging New Global Order
Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan
A Lost Decade for Third-Wave Democracies
By comparing results based on expert and popular surveys, this article finds that popular support for democracy was dwindling even in the decade before expert surveys (such as Freedom in the World and V-Dem) began to show the reality of democratic retreat. Decreasing support for democracy is tied to low satisfaction with how democracy works in practice, and it contributes to the rise of populist leaders who concentrate power in the executive bran…
Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia
Taiwan’s Democracy Challenged
A reassessment of the Chen Shui-bian era (2000-2008), a crucial period in Taiwan's political development
Burma Votes for Change
What does public opinion tell us about Burma’s longer-term prospects for democracy? The Asian Barometer Survey reveals contradictory attitudes regarding democracy and democratic values among the citizens of Burma
Sources of regime legitimacy in Confucian societies
In this article, we examine the on-going debate over the legitimacy of the East Asia regime through a rigorous analysis of a recent Asian Barometer Survey data from 13 countries and territories. First, we compare the relative explanatory power of the elements ordained by Confucian political theory with that of the elements emphasized by the Western liberal tradition in explaining differences in level of regime support across different types of re…
Millennials and East Asia’s Democratic Future
This essay examines how millennials are shaping democracy in East Asia, drawing from the third wave of the Asia Barometer Survey (2010-2013). The essay looks at how millennials engage and participate in politics, their support for democracy and conceptualization of democracy and compares these factors to older cohorts. The findings show that millennials do participate and support democracy, but do so in paradoxical ways that differ from older gen…
How East Asians View the Rise of China
Its newly acquired status as the world's second largest economy has entitled China to a more prominent role in global affairs, and increasingly, its behavior has drawn scrutiny from the world in ways that the country is ill-prepared for. The attention to China's rise, however, focuses not only on its economy but also on other aspects, including its military, diplomatic moves, domestic politics and its ‘soft power’, namely, its own image or self-p…
The Sway of Geopolitics, Economic Interdependence and Cultural Identity
This article identifies the explanatory sources of Asians' perceptions about China's rise. The authors try to decipher the relative importance of individual-level explanatory variables such as socio-economic satisfaction, cognitive schema, and ideology and political values vis-à-vis that of the country-level structural variables such as geopolitical tension, economic interdependence and cultural identity. The empirical findings suggest that the g…
Democracy in East Asia
Over the next few decades East Asia is likely to be the most critical arena in the global struggle for democracy. A region of remarkable diversity that has achieved unparalleled economic growth, East Asia is viewed as a model by many developing countries in other parts of the world. Though some of its most successful countries are democratic, East Asia is also home to nondemocratic regimes that can claim enviable records of both political stabili…
Coping with the Global Financial Crises
Over the last two decades, Taiwan has weathered two global financial crises: the Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998 and the sub-prime loan crisis of 2008–2009. Each time the island's economy emerged from the crisis relatively unscathed. Many of the elements that constitute Taiwan's economic resilience have been fostered through entrenched institutional arrangements and established policy orientations over a long period. Taiwan managed to retain …
Southeast Asia
The authors’ empirical analysis shows both commonalities and variations in the sources of regime support in Southeast Asian countries. Most regimes in the region draw political legitimacy from perceptions that their governance is effective and marked by integrity. These findings lend support to the argument that regime legitimacy—when it is won and when it is lost—is rooted in the output side of the political system. Yet delivering economic prosp…
Minutes of the August 31, 2011, Council Meeting
A regular meeting of the American Political Science Association Council was held in Seattle, Washington, on August 31, 2011. The meeting called to order at 9:00 a.m. by President Pateman. President Pateman declared a quorum present
China and East Asian Democracy
If the People’s Republic of China (PRC) moves toward democracy, it is likely to be in no small part due to the influence of the Republic of China (Taiwan). This influence comes not only from the direct impact of Taiwanese political and social actors in promoting change, but also from Taiwan’s being the first and only democracy yet to be installed in a culturally Chinese society. In addition to demonstrating the compatibility of democracy and Chin…
Gazette
welcomed everyone to Albuquerque and extended a special
Procedural quality only? Taiwanese democracy reconsidered
Over the last decade, a growing number of students of democracy have sought to develop means of framing and assessing the quality of democracy and identifying ways to improve the quality of democratic governance. In this article, we review the recent efforts to conceptualize and measure quality of democracy by way of introducing a comprehensive method for measuring some essential properties of liberal democracy. Next, we present an empirical asse…
The Meanings of Democracy
It is problematic to rely on indicators carrying the "D-word" for measuring democratic legitimacy. Popular conception of the "D-word" has been so much contaminated by competing public discourses and socializing mechanisms that the word "democracy" has lost much of its conceptual clarity and semantic consistency when it travels across borders. We introduce a more reliable tool to compare the cultural foundation for liberal democracy across countri…
Asia's Challenged Democracies
How East Asians View Democracy
East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy. This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian Barometer, in which eight research teams conducted natio…
Seizing the Opportunity for Change in the Taiwan Strait
Taiwan's presidential election in March will usher in a moderate on cross-strait issues, offering a potential shift in cross-strait relations if Washington and Beijing understand the deceptive change toward moderation in Taiwan and what to do to reinforce it
Corruption and Trust
While voluminous studies have attributed the continuing decline of institutional trust to political corruption, the link between corruption and institutional trust in Asia has yet to be explored systematically. Testing the effect of corruption on institutional trust is theoretically important and empirically challenging, since many suggest that contextual factors in Asia, such as political culture and electoral politics, might neutralize the nega…
Public Opinion and Democratic Legitimacy
This paper examines on a global scale how important it is for young democracies to deliver economic welfare to win the hearts of their citizens. A decoupling of popular support for democratic form of government from economic performance is believed to be conducive to the consolidation of young democracies. We found an encouraging global pattern that clearly shows evaluations of economic condition are relatively unimportant in explaining level of …
The Democracy Barometers(Part I)
From Bangkok to Manila, Taipei, Seoul, and Ulaanbaatar, East Asia's third-wave democracies are in distress. Data from the first and second Asian Barometer Surveys can help us systematically to assess the extent of normative commitment to democracy that citizens feel in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Compared to levels of popular support for democracy, strength of authoritarian detachment, and satisfaction wit…
Identifying sources of democratic legitimacy
Conflict Displacement and Regime Transition in Taiwan
This paper presents a spatial analysis of political competition in Taiwan in an effort to explore the role of conflict displacement in the process of democratic transition. In recent elections, a new cleavage on socioeconomic justice has emerged as a salient political issue in Taiwan, crosscutting the traditional cleavage on national identity. The authors first trace the historical trajectory of regime transition in order to provide a structural …
The Meanings of Democracy
It is problematic to rely on indicators carrying the "D-word" for measuring democratic legitimacy. Popular conception of the "D-word" has been so much contaminated by competing public discourses and socializing mechanisms that the word "democracy" has lost much of its conceptual clarity and semantic consistency when it travels across borders. We introduce a more reliable tool to compare the cultural foundation for liberal democracy across countri…
Southeast Asia
The authors’ empirical analysis shows both commonalities and variations in the sources of regime support in Southeast Asian countries. Most regimes in the region draw political legitimacy from perceptions that their governance is effective and marked by integrity. These findings lend support to the argument that regime legitimacy—when it is won and when it is lost—is rooted in the output side of the political system. Yet delivering economic prosp…
How People View Democracy
Judging from their citizens' middling levels of support for and satisfaction with democracy, both Korea and Taiwan are still far from democratic consolidation
State structure and economic adjustment of the East Asian newly industrializing countries
An analysis of the economic adjustment policies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan during the 1970s and 1980s shows that these East Asian newly industrializing countries (NICs), which faced common problems in sustaining their recent industrial growth, responded to the challenge with industrial adjustment strategies that differed in their degree of intensity of state involvement and emphasis on national control. To explain this diver…
How East Asians View the Rise of China
Its newly acquired status as the world's second largest economy has entitled China to a more prominent role in global affairs, and increasingly, its behavior has drawn scrutiny from the world in ways that the country is ill-prepared for. The attention to China's rise, however, focuses not only on its economy but also on other aspects, including its military, diplomatic moves, domestic politics and its ‘soft power’, namely, its own image or self-p…
Taiwan's National Identity Politics and the Prospect of Cross-Strait Relations
Neither principled believers in independence nor principled believers in unification are numerous enough to give any elected Taiwanese leader a clear mandate for imposing a solution on the question of national identity anytime soon. The existence of a large number of non-committed rationalists would, in the short run, mitigate the polarized conflict and could, over the long run, shift the political equilibrium in either direction, depending on ch…
A Lost Decade for Third-Wave Democracies
By comparing results based on expert and popular surveys, this article finds that popular support for democracy was dwindling even in the decade before expert surveys (such as Freedom in the World and V-Dem) began to show the reality of democratic retreat. Decreasing support for democracy is tied to low satisfaction with how democracy works in practice, and it contributes to the rise of populist leaders who concentrate power in the executive bran…
Trading Democracy for Governance
Burma Votes for Change
What does public opinion tell us about Burma’s longer-term prospects for democracy? The Asian Barometer Survey reveals contradictory attitudes regarding democracy and democratic values among the citizens of Burma
Challenge and Change in East Asia
With the memory of the trauma of the March 2004 presidential election gradually fading and a new Legislative Yuan being sworn in on February 1, 2005, Taiwanâ s young democracy has just begun to pull itself out of the worst political turmoil since the island became democratized. The deep acrimony surrounding the last presidential election has left Taiwanâ s democracy with a permanent scar. The society was deeply divided over the outcomes of the el…
The Sway of Geopolitics, Economic Interdependence and Cultural Identity
This article identifies the explanatory sources of Asians' perceptions about China's rise. The authors try to decipher the relative importance of individual-level explanatory variables such as socio-economic satisfaction, cognitive schema, and ideology and political values vis-à-vis that of the country-level structural variables such as geopolitical tension, economic interdependence and cultural identity. The empirical findings suggest that the g…
Taiwan’s Unique Challenges
Taiwan’s Unique Challenges Yun-han Chu (bio) On 23 March 1996, the 14 million voters of the Republic of China on Taiwan went to the polls to cast ballots in their first-ever popular presidential election. At the same time, 150,000 troops belonging to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were massed less than two hundred miles away across the Formosa Strait, preparing for live-ammunition maneuvers—including mi…
Sources of regime legitimacy in Confucian societies
In this article, we examine the on-going debate over the legitimacy of the East Asia regime through a rigorous analysis of a recent Asian Barometer Survey data from 13 countries and territories. First, we compare the relative explanatory power of the elements ordained by Confucian political theory with that of the elements emphasized by the Western liberal tradition in explaining differences in level of regime support across different types of re…
Procedural quality only? Taiwanese democracy reconsidered
Over the last decade, a growing number of students of democracy have sought to develop means of framing and assessing the quality of democracy and identifying ways to improve the quality of democratic governance. In this article, we review the recent efforts to conceptualize and measure quality of democracy by way of introducing a comprehensive method for measuring some essential properties of liberal democracy. Next, we present an empirical asse…
Millennials and East Asia’s Democratic Future
This essay examines how millennials are shaping democracy in East Asia, drawing from the third wave of the Asia Barometer Survey (2010-2013). The essay looks at how millennials engage and participate in politics, their support for democracy and conceptualization of democracy and compares these factors to older cohorts. The findings show that millennials do participate and support democracy, but do so in paradoxical ways that differ from older gen…
Taiwan's 1998 Elections
Research Article| September 01 1999 Taiwan's 1998 Elections: Implications for Democratic Consolidation Yun-han Chu, Yun-han Chu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Larry Diamond Larry Diamond Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1999) 39 (5): 808–822. https://doi.org/10.2307/3021169 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary …
Voices from within
Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) emphasis on whole process people’s democracy and democracy with Chinese characteristics, the type of democracy desired by the Chinese people remains debatable. Using two nationwide surveys conducted in 2015 and 2019, this study examines how ordinary Chinese people view democracy during Xi Jinping’s new era. Acknowledging the constraints of conventional methodologies, this study adopts a novel approach t…
Maritime Territorial Disputes and China’s Soft Power in East Asia
Territorial disputes over the East and South China Sea have been an issue of growing policy concern in East Asia in recent years. These maritime territorial disputes, as the authors argue in this study, constitute a contextual factor undermining China’s soft power in East Asia. More specifically, this study quantitatively demonstrates that all else equal, citizens are less likely to take a positive view of China’s influence on their respective co…
China and East Asian Democracy
If the People’s Republic of China (PRC) moves toward democracy, it is likely to be in no small part due to the influence of the Republic of China (Taiwan). This influence comes not only from the direct impact of Taiwanese political and social actors in promoting change, but also from Taiwan’s being the first and only democracy yet to be installed in a culturally Chinese society. In addition to demonstrating the compatibility of democracy and Chin…
Asia's Challenged Democracies
State structure and economic adjustment of the East Asian newly industrializing countries
An analysis of the economic adjustment policies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan during the 1970s and 1980s shows that these East Asian newly industrializing countries (NICs), which faced common problems in sustaining their recent industrial growth, responded to the challenge with industrial adjustment strategies that differed in their degree of intensity of state involvement and emphasis on national control. To explain this diver…
Political Change in Taiwan
The authors place Taiwan's experience with political liberalization in comparative perspective, addressing issues peculiar to the consolidation of democracy in Taiwan, as well as the more general factors that have influenced the democratization process
Conflict Displacement and Regime Transition in Taiwan
This paper presents a spatial analysis of political competition in Taiwan in an effort to explore the role of conflict displacement in the process of democratic transition. In recent elections, a new cleavage on socioeconomic justice has emerged as a salient political issue in Taiwan, crosscutting the traditional cleavage on national identity. The authors first trace the historical trajectory of regime transition in order to provide a structural …
Taiwan’s Unique Challenges
Taiwan’s Unique Challenges Yun-han Chu (bio) On 23 March 1996, the 14 million voters of the Republic of China on Taiwan went to the polls to cast ballots in their first-ever popular presidential election. At the same time, 150,000 troops belonging to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were massed less than two hundred miles away across the Formosa Strait, preparing for live-ammunition maneuvers—including mi…
Taiwan's 1998 Elections
Research Article| September 01 1999 Taiwan's 1998 Elections: Implications for Democratic Consolidation Yun-han Chu, Yun-han Chu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Larry Diamond Larry Diamond Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1999) 39 (5): 808–822. https://doi.org/10.2307/3021169 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary …
The Challenge of the 1997 Hong Kong Handover for Taiwan
ver since the early 1990s, most observers on both sides of the Taiwan E Strait had tended to view Hong Kong's reversion to Chinese sovereignty on iJuly 1997 as a crucialjuncture for cross-strait relations. It had been a widely held expectation that this fateful date might be a makeor-break point for the three-link issue.' The escalation of tension in the Taiwan Strait since 1994 substantially intensified the worry of a rupture in Taiwan-Hong Kong…
How People View Democracy
Judging from their citizens' middling levels of support for and satisfaction with democracy, both Korea and Taiwan are still far from democratic consolidation
China under Jiang Zemin
An analysis of the evolution of China's leader, Jiang Zemin, taking as its starting point the pivotal 15th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. It details the personalities and platforms that have been contending for control and the strategies used by Jiang to consolidate his position
Taiwan's National Identity Politics and the Prospect of Cross-Strait Relations
Neither principled believers in independence nor principled believers in unification are numerous enough to give any elected Taiwanese leader a clear mandate for imposing a solution on the question of national identity anytime soon. The existence of a large number of non-committed rationalists would, in the short run, mitigate the polarized conflict and could, over the long run, shift the political equilibrium in either direction, depending on ch…
Challenge and Change in East Asia
With the memory of the trauma of the March 2004 presidential election gradually fading and a new Legislative Yuan being sworn in on February 1, 2005, Taiwanâ s young democracy has just begun to pull itself out of the worst political turmoil since the island became democratized. The deep acrimony surrounding the last presidential election has left Taiwanâ s democracy with a permanent scar. The society was deeply divided over the outcomes of the el…
Corruption and Trust
While voluminous studies have attributed the continuing decline of institutional trust to political corruption, the link between corruption and institutional trust in Asia has yet to be explored systematically. Testing the effect of corruption on institutional trust is theoretically important and empirically challenging, since many suggest that contextual factors in Asia, such as political culture and electoral politics, might neutralize the nega…
Taiwan in 2006
The year 2006 will long be remembered by the people of Taiwan as a year of political turmoil. Chen Shui-bian's escalating political crisis at home raised the risk of instability for Washington. Taiwan's economy registered another disappointing year with sluggish growth and a slew of poor statistics
The Democracy Barometers(Part I)
From Bangkok to Manila, Taipei, Seoul, and Ulaanbaatar, East Asia's third-wave democracies are in distress. Data from the first and second Asian Barometer Surveys can help us systematically to assess the extent of normative commitment to democracy that citizens feel in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Compared to levels of popular support for democracy, strength of authoritarian detachment, and satisfaction wit…
How East Asians View Democracy
East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy. This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian Barometer, in which eight research teams conducted natio…
Seizing the Opportunity for Change in the Taiwan Strait
Taiwan's presidential election in March will usher in a moderate on cross-strait issues, offering a potential shift in cross-strait relations if Washington and Beijing understand the deceptive change toward moderation in Taiwan and what to do to reinforce it
Taiwan in 2007
After years of escalating tension in the Taiwan Strait, protracted partisan gridlock, and a stagnating economy, the island anxiously awaited a fresh start after the March 2008 presidential election. The election will offer the potential for a dramatic shift in the tone and trajectory of cross-strait relations, and with it the opportunity for decreased risk that the U.S. could be drawn into an armed conflict with China
Political Change In China
Comparing and Rethinking Political Change in China and Taiwan - B. Gilley. Civil Society and the State. The Evolution of Political Values - Y.H. Chu. Intellectual Pluralism and Dissent - M. Goldman and A. Esarey. Religion and the Emergence of Civil Society - R. Madsen. Business Groups: For or Against the Regime? - D.J. Solinger. Regime Responses. Responsive Authoritarianism - R.P. Weller. Developing the Rule of Law - R. Peerenboom and W. Chen. Co…
Public Opinion and Democratic Legitimacy
This paper examines on a global scale how important it is for young democracies to deliver economic welfare to win the hearts of their citizens. A decoupling of popular support for democratic form of government from economic performance is believed to be conducive to the consolidation of young democracies. We found an encouraging global pattern that clearly shows evaluations of economic condition are relatively unimportant in explaining level of …
Identifying sources of democratic legitimacy
Asia's Challenged Democracies
The Meanings of Democracy
It is problematic to rely on indicators carrying the "D-word" for measuring democratic legitimacy. Popular conception of the "D-word" has been so much contaminated by competing public discourses and socializing mechanisms that the word "democracy" has lost much of its conceptual clarity and semantic consistency when it travels across borders. We introduce a more reliable tool to compare the cultural foundation for liberal democracy across countri…
Gazette
welcomed everyone to Albuquerque and extended a special
Procedural quality only? Taiwanese democracy reconsidered
Over the last decade, a growing number of students of democracy have sought to develop means of framing and assessing the quality of democracy and identifying ways to improve the quality of democratic governance. In this article, we review the recent efforts to conceptualize and measure quality of democracy by way of introducing a comprehensive method for measuring some essential properties of liberal democracy. Next, we present an empirical asse…
Minutes of the August 31, 2011, Council Meeting
A regular meeting of the American Political Science Association Council was held in Seattle, Washington, on August 31, 2011. The meeting called to order at 9:00 a.m. by President Pateman. President Pateman declared a quorum present
China and East Asian Democracy
If the People’s Republic of China (PRC) moves toward democracy, it is likely to be in no small part due to the influence of the Republic of China (Taiwan). This influence comes not only from the direct impact of Taiwanese political and social actors in promoting change, but also from Taiwan’s being the first and only democracy yet to be installed in a culturally Chinese society. In addition to demonstrating the compatibility of democracy and Chin…
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