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中文姓名:祁凱立
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Five Things to Watch for on Election Night in Taiwan

1/11/2016

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If 2016 looks like this, the KMT's LY majority is in big trouble.
​Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP are headed for a historic victory in Saturday’s elections, and the battle has already begun to define the narrative about what that means. One fairly common refrain is that this likely outcome will presage a fundamental realignment of the party system around issues beyond the blue-green divide over cross-Strait relations.
 
I’m skeptical that we are about to see this kind of realigning election, despite the attention given to the campaigns of the so-called “Third Force” parties. I’m also skeptical that this result will be the death knell for the KMT as a political party capable of winning elections. The KMT's coming defeat clearly reflects deep unhappiness with Ma Ying-jeou and the KMT’s rule over the last eight years, intensified by a spectacularly ill-timed economic downturn over the last few months (at least if you are a KMT member!) But an unpopular leader, toxic party brand, and disillusioned supporters are not fatal to major party survival, as the DPP showed after its 2008 electoral thrashing. So while a KMT recovery is not assured, and will at a minimum require some major leadership shakeups, we shouldn't expect the party simply to fade away, and for all those pan-blue supporters (still at least 30 percent of the electorate) to suddenly become fans of the DPP or one of the new parties.

Of course, I could be totally wrong--I'm just some guy on the internet, after all. But either way, we'll know a lot more soon: elections have a nice way of splashing everybody with a cold dose of reality. The results of the election this Saturday will give us the most concrete evidence we'll have to evaluate these competing narratives. So, in the interest of intellectual honesty, let me lay out my own expectations about what will happen, and what it means. Beyond who wins and loses, here's what I'll be watching most closely to see where Taiwanese politics is headed.

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Call for papers: APSA, NATSA proposals due January 8

1/3/2016

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Are you ready, Philly? The political scientists are coming!
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NATSA 2016 will take place at the University of Toronto.
For those interested in Taiwan studies, two important conference proposal deadlines are coming up this week. 

The American Political Science Association (APSA) will hold its annual conference in Philadelphia, September 1-4, 2016. This is the primary academic gathering of political scientists in the United States every year. The APSA Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) has issued a special call for papers, posted below. Pro-tip: applying to CGOTS will significantly increase your chances of getting a paper accepted at APSA.  

In addition, the North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) will hold its annual conference on June 10-11, 2016, on the campus of the University of Toronto. NATSA is the principal annual Taiwan studies conference in North America. The call for papers is below; additional details can be found at the conference website, here.

Great Transformations: Political Science and the Big Questions of Our Time

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2016 American Political Science Association 
Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) 
CALL FOR PAPERS 
Deadline: January 8, 2016 

The 2016 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting will be held from September 1-4 in Philadelphia, PA. The conference theme is “Great Transformations: Political Science and the Big Questions of Our Time.” 

CGOTS invites paper and panel proposals on Taiwan’s domestic politics, international, and cross-strait relations that are consistent with the conference theme of “Great Transformations: Political Science and the Big Questions of Our Time.” 

Transformative change is vital to understand yet complex to study. Transformations can occur through sudden, dramatic upheavals—such as revolutions, regime collapse, or terrorist attacks—that are watersheds between old and new eras. Fundamental change may also be the cumulative result of gradual-moving, incremental developments, as in global warming, rising inequalities, or changing social values. However and wherever these transformations occur, they are imbued with politics, as political forces structure the nature, pace, and interpretation of change. Transformations may, in turn, profoundly alter the political landscape. The year 2016 presents a major transformative moment for Taiwan which may have long-term implications for Taiwan’s future political, socioeconomic, ideational, and cross-strait relations outlooks. 

In the 2016 Annual Meeting, we encourage participants to reflect upon the big transformations of our time. Some major challenges in contemporary Taiwan’s politics, foreign and cross-strait relations stem from large-scale processes that are reconstituting its socio-political identities, external relationships, civil society, economics, and political institutions. How have political forces influenced such changes in Taiwan’s social, economic, political, technological, and environmental spheres? Can we learn from past examples of ideational, material, or institutional change in thinking about contemporary concerns? What methods and approaches can best facilitate the study of large and complex processes? How should we analyze and evaluate various transformations?

Scholars in the field of international relations have been grappling with a variety of structural changes, including shifts in the global balance of power, the effects of new technologies on war-making and security, and evolutions in the international economic order. What implications do these changes have for explaining Taiwan’s external relations and policies as well as Sino-American cooperation and competition?

Comparative politics also has shifted its attention to transformative developments, such as regime changes, radicalized political identities, and challenges to the state. What mix of structure and agency generates these types of political shifts in Taiwan? With respect to methodology and epistemology, in what ways can our research designs help us grasp dynamic transformations in Taiwan and/or China?

​We encourage papers that tackle these and related questions. 

Please send proposals to APSA: http://community.apsanet.org/annualmeeting/call/relatedgroups 

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Professor Dean P. Chen (dchen@ramapo.edu), CGOTS Coordinator. The deadline for proposals is January 8, 2016. Decisions on the proposals will be communicated to you in March 2016. Travel support for CGOTS panelists is subject to the availability of external funding.


​Taiwan Studies in Trans* Perspectives:
Transdisciplinary, Transnational, and Transcultural

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June 10-11, 2016
University of Toronto, Canada


​Deadline of abstract submission: January, 08, 2016
Notification of acceptance: February, 26, 2016
Deadline of Registration: May, 13, 2016
Call For Paper Website: 
http://www.na-tsa.org/2016cfp


We are pleased to announce that the 22nd North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) Annual Conference will be held from June 10-11, 2016. This year's conference, titled "Taiwan Studies in Trans* Perspectives: Transdisciplinary, Transnational, and Transcultural," welcomes scholars interested in studying Taiwan from all disciplines and explores how Taiwan—as a case, a theory, or even a method—can further transform current knowledge constructs toward an inclusive global vision.

Trans*, used in transgender studies as an umbrella term to include individuals seeking gender identities within and beyond the traditional male-female dichotomy, sheds light on an insightful and radical approach to Taiwan Studies. The asterisk in trans*, originating from computer science, serves as a wildcard character that stands for any words starting with trans, and symbolizes the openness and inclusiveness of the transdisciplinary community of Taiwan Studies. In line with this inclusive spirit, Trans* opens up new approaches to encourage scholars of Taiwan Studies to boldly transgress disciplinary boundaries and cull perspectives from various intellectual communities.

Of all the relevant trans* themes in this conference, participants are encouraged, but not limited, to set transdisciplinarity, transnationality, and transculturalism as a point of reference. Transdiciplinarity is not only a series of cross-disciplinary activities but also a transformation among contexts and the transcendence of multiple disciplines to create innovative context-based theories. Taiwan Studies from a transdisciplinary perspective offers a lens for researchers to examine, discuss, and understand issues in multiple contexts. Transnationality both emphasizes and questions the existence of universal values or a one-size-fits-all nation-state theory. It not only digs out the diversity derived from the uniqueness of local contexts, but also tries to clarify the imbalanced power structure among the units. Transculturalism, a theoretical concept that seeks to break the boundaries between different communal, cultural, societal, and national sectors. Additionally, a new framework is established in which participants are understood not as members exclusively belonging to particular groups but as constantly crossing categorical boundaries in a search for self-identity.

With respect to the events of 2015/16 in Taiwan, the importance and necessity of using the trans* lens to study Taiwan cannot be over emphasized: i.e. the controversies over the content of a history curriculum, the Ba-xian water park tragedy, the 70th anniversary of the Second Sino-Japanese War, economic slowdown and integration, Muslim immigrant's Eid al-Fitr in Taipei Railway Station, debates on marriage equality and multiple families, nuclear power, damage from consecutive typhoons, the 2014 Taipei Metro attack, and the upcoming 2016 presidential election, to name a few.

As the very first NATSA annual conference to be held in Canada, we also welcome studies juxtaposing the similarities and differences between Taiwan and Canada on, but not limited to, First Nations/Indigenous issues, independence movements and nationalism, language and education, colonialism and post-colonialism, comparative elections, immigration, women and gender policy, LGBTQ+ protective legislation, and flirtations with neo-imperialism. Distanced from the world of uni- or bipolarity, the 2016 NATSA conference aims to record and catalyze the continuing and discontinuing trans* of Taiwan and Taiwan studies.

Contact Information
Austin Wang, NATSA 2016 Program Director, austin.wang@duke.edu
Eric Cheng, NATSA Secretary, secretary@na-tsa.org

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    I am a political scientist by training, with interests in democratization, parties and elections, and the politics of new and developing democracies. My regional expertise is in East Asia, with special focus on Taiwan.

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