The Impact of Electoral System Reform on Taiwan’s Local Factions
In 2004, the single non-transferable vote (SNTV) was abolished in Taiwan. The SNTV had long been seen as a major factor in the sustenance of county- and township-level clientelist networks (“local factions”). It was also associated with phenomena such as extremism, candidate-centred politics, vote-b...
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| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Current Chinese Affairs |
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| Online Access: | http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/534 |