The Analysis of the Party Cleavage and Conflict Resolution in Legislative Yuan－A Case Study of the Democratic Progressive Party Ruling from 2000 to 2008 A.D.
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Lin, Lung-Chiang
Abstract
Legislative Yuan, the parliament in Taiwan, a place gathering interests, is full of political struggles and interest competitions for parties to reflect public opinion and seek ruling power. Under the constitutional system, the period under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is divided government as minority ruling which leads the party conflict to become more violent in Legislative Yuan. Under this situation, discussing resolutions of party conflict in parliament are very meaningful for the political development in Taiwan.
The approach in the study is historical institutionalism. By discussing the factor of party conflict, it considers both ‘opposition of ideology’ and ‘cleavage of democratic rules’ are the foundations of party cleavage and institution is the key factor connecting party interacting process in history developing. Through different party interacting types and constitutional dispute resolution system operated in bill examining procedure, this study discusses whether the party conflict of important policies or bills would be resolved or not when government ruled with DPP.
According to this study, if one party deals with bills in force, it would easily cause the party conflict model--‘agenda obstruction and parliament strike’, and then the other wouldn’t accept the examining result. It means that the party conflict is too serious to resolve with parliamentary institution, the party would resolve the conflict through the constitutional dispute resolution system.
The institution of Party Caucus Negotiation plays an important role on resolving party conflicts. Moreover, it is important to be the majority in parliament under divided government ruled by the minority. About the dimension of constitutional operation, the Council of Grand Justices delivers the constitutional interpretation. If it also concludes political consideration, party conflict would be resolved. This is the best way to resolve conflict for DPP and lead to the path dependence.
In Taiwan, political cleavage reflects the opposition of ideology among parties. Under the divided government, parties seek power through democratic rules. Although parliamentary institution and constitutional dispute resolution system can resolve the conflicts in parliament, there is still something that they can’t deal with. In this study, the cleavages of Taiwan Independence vs. Unification Ideology, transitional justice and maintaining important party interests through setting democratic rules, they are the reasons which cause party conflict. However, if the bills are related to transitional justice or interest of administration, party conflicts aren’t been resolved. Furthermore, the party cleavages of those bills are also the limits of parliamentary institution and constitutional dispute resolution institution.
Subjects
party cleavage
party conflict
Legislative Yuan
Democratic Progressive Party
divided government
party caucus negotiation
Type
thesis
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