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Political Change on Taiwan: Transition to Democracy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Shao-chuan Leng  and
Cheng-yi Lin
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Samuel P. Huntington categorized Taiwan's path to democracy as “transformation,” by which he meant that “the elites in power took the lead in bringing about democracy.” The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) would agree with this explanation, although the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which was established in 1986 in defiance of martial law, would argue that Taiwan's liberalization and democratization was carried out through a process of transplacement, in which “democratization resulted largely from the joint action by government and opposition groups”.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 136 , December 1993 , pp. 805 - 839
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1993

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