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7 - Loyalty or Expertise? The Practice of Political Patronage in Taiwan

from Part II - Two-Party/Multi-Party Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2023

By
Tong-yi Huang  and
Zong-xian Huang
Edited by
B. Guy Peters ,
Colin Knox  and
Byeong Seob Kim
B. Guy Peters
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
Colin Knox
Affiliation:
Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Byeong Seob Kim
Affiliation:
Seoul National University
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Summary

This chapter uses Taiwan’s case to address the following questions: What context constitutes the practice of patronage in Taiwan? What are the strategies for patronage appointments? With literature review, secondary resources, and in-depth interview data, the authors indicate that Taiwans patronage appointments are highly tangled with the history of democratization and a solid civil service system. Therefore, the elements of loyalty and expertise coexist in the practice of Taiwans patronage appointments. In addition, the authors also embed Taiwans case into the unified framework of patronage appointments, analyzing the observed types of patronage and potential explanatory factors. This chapter could provide useful insights for further comparative research when it comes to exploring the differences and similarities between Asian countries political patronage issues.

Keywords

Political PatronagePolitical AppointmentPolitical ElitePolitics–Administration NexusTaiwan
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Political Patronage in Asian Bureaucracies , pp. 154 - 182
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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