The influence of the Legislative Electoral System on the Party Politics in Taiwan
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Wang, Shih-Yi
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Changes of the electoral system in any country will impact on party politics in a considerable degree. This paper will explore two important reforms of Japanese “Single Member Districts, Two non-Transferable Votes” and “Halve the Legislative Committee Member” implemented after seventh constitutional amendments in Taiwan, which correspond with that the most important relevancy between electoral system changes and development of political parties lies in the electoral formula and the number of persons to be elected in the constituency proposed by scholar Lijphart. Therefore, this paper attempts to understand every political party in Taiwan, especially the People First Party and Taiwan Solidarity Union how to handle, develop and then get out of the fame of the Blue and the Green to create another survival space and to maintain their political domain under multiple impacts of new electoral system, supplant of two large parties and electors dumping small parties and saving large parties.
There are two research apporoachs in this thesis.One is a history study approach ;the other is a political process model.This paper adopts Literature Review and In-depth interview in term of the research method. In respect of the literature review, it not only puts emphasis on the collection, analysis and comparison of materials and understands relative Chinese and western academic theories, but also updates information of news reports and commentaries regarding the electoral system of the legislative committee member, party politics and congress movements, so that this paper can master newest literatures with richer and perfect content in accordance with actual situations. In aspect of the in-depth interview, it understands what influence of enforcement of “Single Member Districts, Two non-Transferable Votes” in Taiwan on the party politics by means of one-on-one interviews with legislative committee members, experts and scholars as well as news media. Especially the number of legislative committee members reducing from 225 to 113 and demarcation of constituencies etc. will make major changes and impacts on congressional dynamics and local factions, so relative responsible organizations must make planning on good associated measures as soon as possible, or there will be more derived problems.
This thesis finds six major problems as following: I. the electoral reform cannot improve disadvantages of old electoral system; II. The party system will tend towards two large parties; III. The number of legislative committee member still can be discussed. IV. distribution of the number of legislative committee members shall suit to the political representative characteristic as much as possible; V. demarcation of constituencies of original inhabitants shall be still solved; VI. The Blue-Green Confrontation will deteriorate continuously which will make against the national integration. This paper hopes that these researches and findings can prompt the authority to pay attention to various problems caused by electoral reforms, to find methods to solve through these problems and then to formulate a set of electoral system suitable to actual situations in Taiwan
Subjects
立法委員
選舉制度
政黨政治
單一選區兩票制
選區劃分
legislative committee member
electoral system
party politics
single member districts and two non-transferable votes
demarcation of constituencies
Type
thesis
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