The birth of the opposition party in Taiwan: The international system, isolated state, civil society and nationalism

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330046
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: WAKABAYASHI Masahiro 早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (60114716)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KISHIKAWA Takeshi 上智大学, 総合グローバル学部, 教授 (60286755) ; MATSUDA Yasuhiro 東京大学, 大学院情報学環, 教授 (50511482) ; OGASAWARA Yoshiyuki 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 准教授 (20233398)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SATO Yukihito アジア経済研究所, 企業産業研究グループ, グループ長 (90450460)
• Research Collaborator: HSUEH Hua-Yuan 政治大学, 台湾史研究所, 所長 ; WANG Horn-luen 中央研究院, 社会学研究所, 副研究員 ; HO I-Lin 台北教育大学, 台湾文化研究所, 副教授
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 政治学 / 比較政治 / 台湾政治

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the past three years we conducted interviews, organized workshops, held meetings, and collected related materials. In the end, we reached conclusion that our hypothesis on the birth of the opposition party in Taiwan has been affirmed. The circumstances in which the Taiwanese society responded to the dilemma of “a prosperous isolated state” brought to the emergence of an opposition party which committed not only to the universal human rights such as freedom and democracy, but also to the Taiwanese nationalism which would challenge to the international system that enforced the “One China principle.”

Free Research Field

政治学