Studies on Political Donation of Presidential Election in Taiwan ~Case of the 13th Presidential Election
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Chang, Yi
Abstract
Researchers who study elections are particularly interested in prediction of electoral outcome, while Political Donation are pivotal to elections. With Political Donation having relatively objective basis, a donor must feel strong support for a candidate to contribute financially, whose quantification enables a researcher to examine such behavior with relatively certain statistical inference. Despite gender being another subject gradually studied in politics, one wonders if gender also occupies a special realm in Political Donation. With the first female candidate Tsai Ing-wen having run for the 13th presidency of Taiwan, the question is whether a gender gap plays a role in Political Donation. Earlier presidential elections in Taiwan have always seen distinct differences in north-Vs-south voting for the two parties, which also sets the stage to examine the correlation between such geographical differences and sums, numbers of Political Donation for the Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Party. The results show that the female gender of Tsai, also candidate of the DPP in the race, actually did not clearly influence Political Donation in the presidential election, instead reflected the underlying politics. There were also municipal concentrations in Political Donation from individuals and corporations, with such trends being more pronounced between city and smaller towns (or villages). The original hypothesis of Political Donation in presidential elections being related to Taiwan’s geopolitical uniqueness to show a north-Vs-south gap has been disproven with statistical analysis, to reveal instead a correlation to regional or local residents’ financial capacity.
Subjects
Presidential election
Political Donation
gender gap
locational difference
SDGs
Type
thesis
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