The Evolution of Democratic Progressive Party's Factions:from a Political-Economy Perspective
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Peng, Kuo-Hua
Abstract
The purpose of the study is to examine the evolution of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) factions from the perspective of political economy. Although citizens may have ill feeling for parties and factions, both parties and factions still play important roles in the operation of democratic politics.
Beginning in 1970s and prospering in 1980s, the anti-KMT activities had led to the forming of DPP. During these days, there were already many different groups in DPP. Although these groups had made the consensus of fighting with the powerful authority, they still had different backgrounds, beliefs and ideologies. They competed with each other for leadership power and resources, and that is why this progress turned to be faction conflicts.
The main function of factions is to capture the limited resources, and the elites in the DPP should take these resources as their backups. This kind of evolution has its own advantages, but also brings about some disadvantages. For a long time, the factions operations in DPP have made it a party of coalition of factions. That is to say, DPP already accepted this kind of operation and every faction also built their own norms and disciplines.
Since the DPP won the presidential election in 2000 and became the ruling party, the factions tried to allocate political and economic resource in an extreme way. However, this kind of allocation finally led to a fiasco.
Therefore, this study will try to analyze the operations of factions in DPP and use a different perspective to discuss the problems of factions. As DPP lost the presidential election in 2008, its factions may have different opinions in the operation of power and disputes in the main issues. This thesis will also focus on the future of DPP, and seek to find out how to solve all these problems.
Subjects
faction
political party
Democratic Progressive Party(DPP)
anti-Kmt activities
factionalism
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