IPS554: Special Topics in Comparative Political Parties

Syllabus | 2019 Fall Syllabus | 2019 Fall Coursework | 2018 Spring Syllabus

Week 1: Course introduction

Research ethics | Writing

選舉制度與政黨體系 / 李帕特(Arend Lijphart)著 ; 張慧芝譯

Week 2: Foundation of comparative political party studies

  • Stokes, Susan. 1999. Political Parties and Democracy Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 2: 243-267. here

  • Jonathan Sullivan, Taiwan 2016 academic resources: Parties and the Legislature

  • Kharis Templeman, IS TAIWAN’S PARTY SYSTEM HEADED FOR A CRACKUP?

  • Munck, Gerardo L. The Past and Present of Comparative Politics. In Munck, Gerardo L, and Richard Snyder. 2007. Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics. The Johns Hopkins University Press.

  • Fell, Dafydd. 2020. "Party Politics Revisited." Fell, D. and Hsiao, H.H.M. eds., 2020. Taiwan Studies Revisited. Routledge. Ch 11

  • Fell, Dafydd. 2020. Taiwan's Political Parties in the Aftermath of the 2016 Elections, In Sullivan, J. and Lee, C.Y. eds., 2018. A New Era in Democratic Taiwan: Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations. Routledge.

  • Fell, Dafydd. (2018). Government and Politics in Taiwan (2nd ed.). Routledge. Ch 4-7

  • Fell, Dafydd. 2005. Party Politics in Taiwan : Party Change and the Democratic Evolution of Taiwan, 1991-2004. Routledge.

Week 3-4: Schattschneider

Schattschneider, E.E., 1960. The semi-sovereign people. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston. 半主權的人民:一個現實主義者眼中的美國民主 E·E·謝茨施耐德 天津人民出版社 2000

Week 5: Guest talk on South Korea and Taiwan

Week 6-7: Sartori

Sartori, G., 1976/2005. Parties and party systems: A framework for analysis. ECPR press. 政黨與政黨制度 / 喬凡尼.薩托利(Giovanni Sartori)著 ; 雷飛龍譯

Week 8: Guest talk on Hong Kong

Week 9: mid-term

Week 10: UK party politics

Maor, M., 1997/2005. Political parties and party systems: Comparative approaches and the British experience. Routledge. 政黨制度的比較分析 / Moshe Maor著 ; 高千雯譯 出版項 臺北縣永和市 : 韋伯文化國際, 民94[2005] tbl

Week 11: Guest talk on direct democracy

Week 12: UK party politics and comparative politics

Maor, M., 1997/2005. Political parties and party systems: Comparative approaches and the British experience. Routledge. 政黨制度的比較分析 / Moshe Maor著 ; 高千雯譯 出版項 臺北縣永和市 : 韋伯文化國際, 民94[2005] tbl

Week 13-15: Political parties and democracy online

Diamond, L. and Gunther, R. eds., 2001. Political parties and democracy. JHU Press. 政黨與民主,上海人民出版社

Week 16-17: Electoral systems, regime type, and party politics online

Batto, Nathan. F., Chi Huang, Alexander C. Tan, and Gary W. Cox. 2016. Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context : Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond. University of Michigan Press. intro-3 // 4-7 here

Week 18: Final week

Political Parties in the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan

  • DPP Democratic Progressive Party 民主進步黨
  • KMT Kuomintang 中國國民黨
  • TPP Taiwan People's Party 台灣民眾黨
  • NPP New Power Party 時代力量
  • TSP Taiwan Statebuilding Party 台灣基進

Data Sets

Journals

NSYSU-available electronic books

Karvonen, Lauri et al. 2000. Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisited. Routledge

Gunther, Richard, Jose Ramon Montero, and Linz (eds.), 2002. Political Parties: Old Concepts and New Challenges. Oxford University Press.

Norris, P., 2004. Electoral engineering: Voting rules and political behavior. Cambridge university press.

Adams, James F. and Merrill III, Samuel A. 2005. Unified Theory of Party Competition : A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors. Cambridge University Press.

Fell, Dafydd. 2005. Party Politics in Taiwan : Party Change and the Democratic Evolution of Taiwan, 1991-2004. Routledge.

Benoit, Kenneth; Laver, Michael. 2006. Party Policy in Modern Democracies. Routledge

Burnell, Peter. 2006. Globalising Democracy : Party Politics in Emerging Democracies. Routledge.

Cox, Gary W.; McCubbins, Mathew D.. 2007. Legislative Leviathan : Party Government in the House. Cambridge University Press.

Lye, Liang Fook and Hofmeister, Wilhelm. 2010. Political Parties, Party Systems and Democratisation in East Asia. World Scientific Publishing.

Inoguchi, T. and Blondel, J. eds., 2012. Political parties and democracy: contemporary Western Europe and Asia. Palgrave. here

Batto, Nathan. F., Chi Huang, Alexander C. Tan, and Gary W. Cox. 2016. Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context : Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond. University of Michigan Press.

Achen, Christopher H. and T. Y. Wang. 2017. The Taiwan Voter. University of Michigan Press.

Selected other books

Michels, Robert. 1915. Political Parties JF2049 M52

Key, V.O. 1984 [1949]. Politics, Parties and Pressure Groups

Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. Boston: Addison Wesley

Duverger, Maurice. 1963. Political Parties JF2051 D88

Cox, Gary W. 1987. The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parties in Victorian England. Cambridge: Cambridge

Panebianco, A., 1988. Political parties: organization and power. Cambridge. JF2051 P36

Mair, Peter (ed.). 1990. The West European Party System Oxford University Press JN94 .A979 W47

Kitschelt, Herbert. 1994. The Transformation of European Social Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Aldrich, John. 1995. Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Mainwaring, Scott and Timothy R. Scully eds. 1995. Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Ware, Alan. 1996. Political Parties and Party Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cox, W. Gary. 1997. Making Votes Count. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dalton, Russell J. and Martin P. Wattenberg, eds., 2000. Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies. New York: Oxford University Press.

Diamond Larry and Richard Gunther (eds.). 2001. Political Parties and Democracy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Green, Donald, et. al. 2002. Partisan Hearts and Minds. Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters. New Haven, Yale University Press.

Gallagher, M. and Mitchell, P. eds., 2005. The politics of electoral systems. OUP Oxford. here

Sartori, Giovanni. 2005. Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis. European Consortium for Political Research Press.

Scheiner, Ethan. 2006. Democracy without Competition in Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Greene, Kenneth. 2007. Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexicos Democratization in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Hicken, Allen. 2009. Building Party Systems in Developing Democracies. New York: Cambridge

Samuels, David J. and Matthew S. Shugart. 2010. Presidents, Parties and Prime Ministers: How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press. 《总统、政党与首相:分权如何影响政党的组织和行为》 ,杨潇译,北京: 社会科学文献出版社,2016年

Stoll, Heather. 2013. Changing Societies, Changing Party Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lupu, Noam. 2013. Brand Dilution and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America. World Politics.

Hicken, Allen. 2014. Party System Institutionalization in Asia: Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadows of the Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Roberts, Kenneth M. 2015. Changing Course in Latin America Party Systems in the Neoliberal Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.