A Spatial Analysis of the Legislative Elections in Taiwan, 1994-2008
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Yu-Ting, Wang
Abstract
In the development of democracy, the election campaigns have become one of the political activities that people participate in directly. People fulfill their political involvements through elections and voting. Recently, there are more and more political activities in Taiwan; therefore, the studies of the voting behaviors are highly valued. patial perspectives of elections were seldom applied to the study of voting behavior in Taiwan. However, the regional differentiation of voting behavior had generally attracted researchers’ attention. This thesis applies spatial econometric analysis to analyze spatial distribution and political changes of pan-blue and pan-green parties during the period 1994 – 2008 based on the data collected from 358 administrative units in Taiwan.oran’s I statistic is employed in this study to measure the spatial association of the Legislative Elections in Taiwan .We found that residuals in the classical regression model exhibited regional differentiation which indicates spatial heterogeneity. Voters can still be affected from the neighborhood effect, even some social factors such as gender, age, education, employment and ethnicity have been controlled. After the spatial analysis of the Legislative Elections in Taiwan, this research will give some evaluations and suggestions.
Subjects
legislative elections
political geography
spatial analysis
spatial autocorrelation
spatial regression model
Type
thesis
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