The Influences of The Mixed-Member Electoral System on Taiwanese Partisan Politics

• Main Authors: Lin Jung lung, 林瑞隆
• Other Authors: 陳滄海
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48048468829200635287

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 社會科教育學系碩士班 === 96 === In 2005, Taiwan reduced the number of legislative seats to 113 and changed its legislative electoral system to mixed electoral systems combining single-member districts and proportional representation. It is also called “combined-independent system” being implemented in Japan, Russia, and Italy. In this system, the votes are counted separately in both types of seat so that the share of the vote for each party cast in the party lists is unrelated to the distribution of seats in the single-member districts. In this article the author had discussed the electoral systems, party systems, proportion of votes to seats, political landscape and legislative system . According to the consequences of the Legistative Yuan election in 2008, There were three points concluded in this thesis.First, the party system of Taiwan changed from Multiple Party System into Two-Party System.Second, the party discipline was enforced and it contributed to the development of two-party competition.Third,Combined-independent system squeeze the chance for small party to survive in the local political arena. Additionally, the author also made some suggestions for the improvemet of combined-independent system in the future by the approach of historical institutionalism. First, the threshold should be set slightly lower.Second,the total number of parliamentary seats was suggested to be increased.Third,the seats of Proportional Representation could be added.Fourth,the government could provide finance for the political parties to hold a primary election.