IPS554: Special Topics in Comparative Political Parties

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Main reference

Mair, Peter (ed.). 1990. The West European Party System Oxford University Press NSYSU library | content

Ware, Alan. 1996. Political Parties and Party Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. NSYSU library | eLibrary | content

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

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

Week 1 (2/16): Course introduction

The Renewal of Representation: A Proposed Global Agenda

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

Week 2 (2/23): Parties (1)

Ware 1996, Ch 1-2

Week 3 (3/2): Parties (2)

Ware 1996, Ch 3

Party politics in the Philippines

Week 4 (3/9) no class, 全校運動會

Week 5 (3/16): Parties systems

Ware 1996, Ch 5-7

Week 6 (3/23): Parties in government

Ware 1996, Ch 9-12

Week 7 (3/30): Party politics in the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan

Liang and Hofmeister Ch 8-10

Week 8 (4/6): Parties and democracy in the Philippines and South Korea

Inoguchi and Blondel, Ch 8 & 11

Week 9 (4/13): Mid-term

Week 10 (4/20): Parties, Party systems, and Taiwan voters (1)

Achen and Wang 2017, Ch 1-3

Week 11 (4/27): Parties, Party systems, and Taiwan voters (2)

Achen and Wang 2017, Ch 4-6

Week 12 (5/4): Parties, Party systems, and Taiwan voters (3)

Achen and Wang 2017, Ch 7-9

Week 13 (5/11): Parties, Party systems, and Taiwan voters (4)

Achen and Wang 2017, Ch 10-12

Week 14 (5/18): Party organizations in the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan

Hellmann Ch 2,3,4

Week 15 (5/25): Party systems in the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan (1)

Hicken, 2009, Ch 6 here

Hicken and Kuhonta, 2014, Ch 5,

Teehankee, J. C. (2020). Factional Dynamics in Philippine Party Politics, 1900–2019. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 39(1), 98–123.

Week 16 (6/1): Party systems in the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan (2)

Hicken and Kuhonta, 2014, Ch 11, and 13

Schleiter, P., & Voznaya, A. (2018). Party System Institutionalization, Accountability and Governmental Corruption. British Journal of Political Science, 48(2), 315-342.

Week 17 (6/8): Final exam week

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

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

Week 18 (6/15): 彈性學習

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

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

Maor, M., 1997. 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]

Lijphart, A. and Aitkin, D., 1994. Electoral systems and party systems: A study of twenty-seven democracies, 1945-1990. Oxford University Press. 選舉制度與政黨體系 / 李帕特(Arend Lijphart)著 ; 張慧芝譯 | 选举制度与政党制度 : 1945-1990年27个国家的实证硏究 / [美]阿伦.利普哈特(Arend Lijphart)著 ; 谢岳译

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

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

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

General

The Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy (REPRESENT)

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.

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

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

Hellmann, O., 2011. Political parties and electoral strategy: The development of party organization in East Asia. Springer.

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

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

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: Mexico's Democratization in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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

Dalton, R.J. and Zhu, Y. eds., 2008. Party politics in East Asia: citizens, elections, and democratic development. Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

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

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