Coalition Politics: A New Phenomenon in Taiwan

Issues and Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 55-72

  Wu, Jaushieh Joseph ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coalition; Constitution; Democratization; DPP; KMT; NP

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242319461     PISSN: 10132511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Zili wanbao (Independence Evening Post), April 7, 1996, 3.
2. Zhongguo shibao (China Times), December 3, 1995, 1. There have been some changes to the number of seats held by each political party after the Legislative Yuan convened in the first part of 1996. Two KMT legislators were expelled for siding with the opposition, two DPP members were suspended of their rights for different offenses, and the independents' alliance broke up because of violence committed by one of them against another. If one considers the fact that the speaker of the Legislative Yuan does not vote on the floor, the KMT's majority is next to nothing.
3. Zhongguo shibao, April 12, 1996, 1.
4. Ibid., May 25, 1996, 1, 3.
5. Ibid., 2, 4.
6. Jaushieh Joseph Wu, "The 1995 Legislative Yuan Election in Taiwan," Issues & Studies 31, no. 12 (December 1995): 111; Teh-fu Huang, "Electoral Competition and the Evolution of the Kuomintang," ibid., no. 5 (May 1995): 95-96.
7. Jaushieh Joseph Wu, "The 1995 Legislative Yuan Election in Taiwan," Issues & Studies 31, no. 12 (December 1995): 111; Teh-fu Huang, "Electoral Competition and the Evolution of the Kuomintang," ibid., no. 5 (May 1995): 95-96.
8. William H. Riker, The Theory of Political Coalitions (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962).
9. Ziyou shibao (Liberty Times), May 3, 1996, 2.
10. Teh-fu Huang and Emerson Niou, "Party Systems and Democratic Consolidation: The Cases of Taiwan and South Korea" (Paper presented at the International Conference on Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Trends and Challenges," Taipei, August 27-30, 1995), 39; Jih-ching Yang, "Forming the Cabinet after the Reelection of the Legislative Yuan," Wenti yu yanjiu (Issues & Studies) 35, no. 1 (January 1996): 13.
11. Teh-fu Huang and Emerson Niou, "Party Systems and Democratic Consolidation: The Cases of Taiwan and South Korea" (Paper presented at the International Conference on Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Trends and Challenges," Taipei, August 27-30, 1995), 39; Jih-ching Yang, "Forming the Cabinet after the Reelection of the Legislative Yuan," Wenti yu yanjiu (Issues & Studies) 35, no. 1 (January 1996): 13.
12. Zhongguo shibao, December 15, 1995, 1-2.
13. Ibid., February 2, 1996, 2-3.
14. Ziyou shibao, April 24, 1996, 2. The talk by Hsu Hsin-liang about forming a coalition government was given after the DPP Central Standing Committee decided not to form a coalition government with the KMT.
15. Zili wanbao, April 7, 1996, 3, an exclusive interview with DPP acting chairman Chang Chun-hung.
16. Lianhe bao (United Daily News), June 17, 1996, 2.
17. Zili wanbao, April 14, 1996, 1.
18. Ziyou shibao, April 24, 1996, 2.
19. Lianhe bao, April 15, 1996, 1.
20. Zili wanbao, April 11, 1996, 1.
21. Ziyou shibao, April 11, 1996, 1.
22. Article 55, Constitution of the Republic of China; Articles 13, 14, and 15 of the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China.
23. Article 7, Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China.
24. Article 72, Constitution of the Republic of China.
25. Article 53, Constitution of the Republic of China.
26. Article 57, Constitution of the Republic of China.
27. Jaushieh Joseph Wu, "The 1994 Elections in Taiwan: Continuity, Change, and the Prospect of Democracy," Issues & Studies 31, no. 3 (March 1995): 104-10.
28. See Wu, "The 1995 Legislative Yuan Election in Taiwan," and Huang, "Electoral Competition and the Evolution of the Kuomintang."
29. See Wu, "The 1995 Legislative Yuan Election in Taiwan," and Huang, "Electoral Competition and the Evolution of the Kuomintang."