Neo‐authoritarianism, polarized conflict and populism in a newly democratizing regime

Taiwan's emerging mass politics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12421908
AutoresHu Fu (0009-0004-2181-6188, National Taiwan University, autor de correspondencia), Yun‐han Chu (0000-0003-2395-6163, National Taiwan University)
Año1996
Volumen5
Número11
Páginas23-41
Fecha de publicación1996-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10670569608724237
OpenAlexW2135736800
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas14

A major obstacle to the consolidation of Taiwan's new democracy lies in the island's emerging mass politics. In recent years, three inter‐related trends have come to characterize Taiwan's political culture and citizen politics: uneven development of mass beliefs in democratic legitimacy, polarization of political cleavage, and a shift to political populism. First, political liberty, meaning primarily freedom of speech and due process, and separation of power meaning parliamentary oversight and judicial independence, have yet to become widely held democratic values among Taiwan's electorate despite visible progress in the development of formal democratic institutions. Next, the polarized conflict over national identity is potentially dangerous because it could result in both internal ethnic strife and external military intervention. Last, an intense lack of confidence in representative institutions and a low level of political tolerance pose a formidable challenge to the development of constitutionalism

Authoritarianism · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Democratic consolidation · Democratization · Development economics · Economics · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Philippine History and Culture