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Change and the Unchanged of Polarized Politics in Taiwan

  • Min-Hua Huang

On October 17-18, 2014 the Taiwan Democracy Project at CDDRL, with the generous support of the Taipei Economic and Culture Office, hosted its annual conference at Stanford University to examine the politics of polarization in Taiwan.

This conference brought together specialists from Taiwan, the U.S., and elsewhere in Asia to examine the sources and implications of this political polarization in comparative perspective. It will include a special case study of the Trade in Services Agreement with China that triggered this past year’s protests, as well as a more general overview of the politics of trade liberalization in Taiwan, prospects for Taiwan’s integration into the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other regional trade agreements, and a consideration of the implications for Taiwan’s long-term democratic future.

Min-hua Huang (黃旻華) is Associate Professor of Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University, and a 2014-15 visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. His research and teaching interests are in survey studies, Asian politics and multivariate statistical analysis. Before joining the National Taiwan University, he served as an assistant professor in National Chengchi University (2004-2005), National Taiwan University (2005-2008), Texas A&M University (2008-2012), and a senior fellow at Shanghai Jiaotong University (2012-2013). He also worked for the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) and acted as the executive secretary since 2004. Dr. Huang’s publications have appeared in Journal of Contemporary China, Korea Review of International Politics, Asian Politics & Policy, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Electoral Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of Democracy, International Review of Sociology, International Political Science Review, and various Taiwanese political science journals. Dr. Huang received his Ph.D. (2004) from the University of Michigan.