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Road Not Taken: Current Status of Clientelism Studies in Taiwan and Its Predicaments

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Abstract

Journal of Asian and African Studies, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 2640-2653, May 2026.
Electoral clientelism has been a persistent issue in Taiwan since the settlement of Chinese National Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) in the Island starting 1949. Sustained through long-term corporatist collaboration between local elites and the KMT, patronage ...