Democratic governance in Taiwan / edited by John Fuh-Sheng Hseih and Robert Henry Cox.

Introduction / John Fuh-sheng Hsieh and Robert Henry Cox -- Regime type and governance : the case of Taiwan / John Fuh-sheng Hsieh -- Managing voting for democracy in Taiwan / I-chou Liu -- When democracy meets bureaucracy : studying reforms of Taiwan's civil service since democratization in the late 1980s / Don-yuan Chen, Hsiang-kai Dong and Yang-chung Chen -- The mutinous mutation of the developmental state in Taiwan revisited / Yun-peng Chu -- From developmentalism to post-industrialism : the evolution of the welfare state in Taiwan / Joseph Wong -- Environmental protection after Taiwan's democratic consolidation : is democracy working for the environment? / Dafydd Fell -- From political democratization to the claim for social justice / Wan-Ying Yang -- When democracy meets the COVID-19 pandemic : Taiwan's experience / Wei-ting Yen and Li-yin Liu -- Charting the way forward : Taiwan's civil-military relations after 2016 / Wei-chin Lee -- Taiwan's domestic politics, economic development and national security and their links to foreign policy and democratization / John Copper -- David vs. Goliath : Taiwan's policy toward China / T.Y. Wang.

"This book employs a policy-based approach to examine the emerging governance structure in Taiwan, one of several countries in East Asia where democratic consolidation is firmly established. As a study of Taiwan's democratic governance, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, comparative politics, democracy and Taiwan"-- Provided by publisher.