How does informal government accountability relate to democratization? In this paper, we use multiple methodologies to show the relation between informal government accountability and democratization in Taiwan. Three results are relevant: First, a game-theoretic model reveals that both informal...

How is government spending used strategically in the emergent Asian democracies of South Korea and Taiwan? As nations generally considered to have weathered democratization, a study of government spending in South Korea and Taiwan is instructive on how allocations may be used strategically...

Are new democracies with divided governments and volatile parties politically ill-fated? The literature suggests so, but cases of emergent democracies, such as Taiwan and Brazil that face both conditions, defy the prediction. This paper explains why: Party volatility follows from pursuing...

How does political trust affect the competing pressures of policy versus political performance in emergent democracies? Studies suggest that political trust buffers against these pressures, but empirical evidence is lacking in regard to if or how, given the focus in the literature on mature...

A large literature on government spending notes that new democracies generally change their spending patterns in favor of social spending to build support and in response to constituency demand. Yet, curiously, studies of new democracies also reveal volatility in their party system development...

A debate persists over how economic performance fuels democratization. It is fanned partly by the divergent experiences of South Korea and Taiwan that suggest that economic growth leads to democratization. This paper provides a theoretical model that shows that economic downturns lead to...

How does economic performance and partisanship affect government approval and democratic support in democratizing Asia? Much of extant examination has skirted Asia. This paper extends the study of the effects of economic performance to Asia's democratizing nations of Taiwan, Thailand, South...