How Elections Promoted Democracy in Taiwan under Martial Law

Authors:
  • LCLinda Chao
    Linda Chao
  • RMRamon H. Myers
    Ramon H. Myers
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Abstract
In October 1952, while addressing the Seventh Congress of the Kuomintang (KMT), the party chairman and president of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek, reminded his audience that “Sun Yat-sen's highest goal was to build a political system in which sovereignty resided with the people [zuchuan zaimin]” Chiang then said that “in order to oppose communism and recover our nation, the primary task of our party is to carry out local elections, build our nation's political system, and establish the solid foundations for our people to practise democracy.”

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