Taiwan's Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective
Taiwan's Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective
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比较视角下的台湾政党初选
DOI：
10.1017/s1468109901000123
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发表时间：
2001
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1
通讯作者：
D. Fell
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作者：
Chung;D. Fell
在发达国家之外，缺乏对候选人选择的研究。在本文中，我们试图填补这一空白，详细研究导致第三次民主浪潮台湾引入政党初选的因素、其运作及其未来前景。尽管台湾是一个较晚的民主化国家，但其政党制度化程度较高，因此将其提名制度与较老的政党进行比较更为合适，我们特别将其与德国和英国的主要政党进行比较。我们的讨论还发现欧洲政党党内民主的发展有许多相似的趋势，特别是在候选人选择的权力下放以及政党中心与成员之间的调解减少方面。此外，尽管竞选活动发生了技术性变化，台湾政党并未放弃群众党员模式。在台湾，直选一直是一个有争议的话题。通过分析相关数据，我们认为，党内初选的核心问题在于缺乏公平性，党内干部试图垄断候选人的选择，从而未能保持中立。我们发现有迹象表明，各党派领导人都对党内民主走得太远而失去对提名的控制持谨慎态度。当党中央担心会选出错误的候选人时，他们准备操纵规则以使其有利于自己，或重新集中选举过程。
There has been a lack of research into candidate selection outside the developed world. In this paper we attempt to fill this gap, with a detailed examination of the factors leading to the introduction of party primaries, their operations and their future prospects, in a third wave democracy, Taiwan. Although Taiwan is a late democratizer, the high degree of party institutionalization makes it more appropriate to compare its nomination system with those of older political parties, we particularly contrast it with the leading German and British political parties. Our discussion also finds many similar trends with developments of intra-party democracy in European parties, particularly in terms of a decentralization of candidate selection and reduced mediation between party centre and members. In addition, despite technical changes in electoral campaigning, parties in Taiwan have not abandoned the mass membership model. In Taiwan, direct primary elections have been a controversial subject. By analyzing relevant data, we argue that the core problem of the party primary was its lack of fairness, because party cadres tried to monopolize the candidate selection and thus failed to remain neutral. We find signs that leaders in all parties are wary of allowing inner party democracy to go too far and losing their control over nomination. When the party centre fears the wrong candidates will be selected, they are prepared to manipulate the rules in their favour or re-centralize the selection process.