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Tag: 9-in-1 elections

China’s Meddling in the 2018 Taiwan Local Election

11 December 2018 Editor

Written by Yu-Hua Chen. Taiwan completed its nine-in-one local election on 24 November 2018, which ended up with a historical defeat of the ruling Democratic

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Three Public Opinion Trends Paved the Way for the DPP’s Defeat

10 December 2018 Editor

Written by Dongtao Qi. The results of Taiwan’s 2018 nine-in-one local elections surprised many observers. Surely many of them had been anticipating the DPP’s loss

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Some Early Thoughts on the Taiwan 2018 Elections and Referendums in an International Context- Part Two

7 December 2018 Editor

Written by Ian Inkster, Mark Wenyi Lai and Victoria Hsin Hsin Chang. Identity Politics in the International Context The global thesis is that industrial democracies

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Some Early Thoughts on the Taiwan 2018 Elections and Referendums in an International Context- Part One

7 December 2018 Editor

Written by Ian Inkster, Mark Wenyi Lai and Victoria Hsin Hsin Chang. The academic commentaries now hitting the scene in the Taiwanese newspapers and social

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Explaining the Results of Taiwan’s Mid-Term Election

6 December 2018 Editor

Written by John Copper. On November 24, 2018, Taiwan held its mid-term election or what was better known as its “Nine-in-One Election.” Voters went to

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Key takeaways from the Taiwan elections

4 December 2018 Editor

Written by Lauren Dickey. On Saturday, 24 November, the people of Taiwan went to the polls to vote for over 11,000 local-level officials and voice

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Analyzing the DPP Electoral Debacle

4 December 2018 Editor

Written by Bruce Jacobs. The dramatic DPP defeat in the last local elections has surprised everyone on both sides of politics. The elections were very

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The New Battle for the Third Place in 2018: A Breakthrough but also a Missed Opportunity

28 November 2018 Editor

Written by Dafydd Fell. Four years ago on the eve of the last round of local elections in Taiwan I wrote a piece looking at

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Who Will Win? Observing Taiwan Local Election 2018

24 November 2018 Editor

Written by Mark Wenyi Lai. Taiwanese local election of 2018 is seen as the midterm election of Tsai Ing-wen’s first Presidency. The incumbent Democratic Progressive

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The 2018 Taiwan Local Elections: “but already it was impossible to say which was which”

24 November 2018 Editor

Written by Michael A. Turton. In the local media and among election observers, the story of this election has been the meteoric rise of Han

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The 2018 Local Elections – Five Questions for Election Night

23 November 2018 Editor

Written by Kharis Templeman. On November 24, Taiwan voters will go to the polls to elect over 11,000 local officials for nine different kinds of

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Taiwan’s Upcoming Local Elections: Implications beyond 2018

22 November 2018 Editor

Written by T.Y. Wang. In less than a week, millions of Taiwanese voters will go to the polls to vote in one of the most

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The Taiwan Studies Programme is a research centre based at the University of Nottingham focusing on all aspects of contemporary Taiwan. The Taiwan Studies Programme does not privilege political positions and the views published on Taiwan Insight are those of the author and not the institute.

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