About the BookOver the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena.

At the end of Chen Shui-bian’s two terms as the president of Taiwan, his tenure was widely viewed as a disappointment, if not an outright failure.

The Republic of China on Taiwan has long reserved legislative seats for its indigenous minority, the yuanzhumin.

In an article in the American Interest, Didi Kuo argues that understanding the causes of polarization -- whether rooted in a polarized electorate, or rooted in the ideological extremism of campaign...

Francis Fukuyama discusses Congress's dysfunctional budgetary politics in "The American Interest", asking why the United States is one of the only advanced democracies under constant threat of...

Bruce Cain argues in "The American Interest" that greater transparency can undermine good governance by allowing undue influence of discrete interests and by creating inefficiencies.

We estimate the impacts of being connected to politicians on occupational choice.

Why do American political reform efforts so often fail to solve the problems they intend to fix? In this book, Bruce E.

New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan takes a creative and comparative view of the new challenges and dynamics confronting these maturing democracies.Numerous works deal with...

Abstract:  This paper offers a systematic account of political regime changes in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1996-2010.