One of the premises of democratization is that political parties are able to contest in elections. As local governments are able to control a large amount of resources, the results of local elections can be crucial to a party's prospects in national elections. In Taiwan, local elections used to...

It is generally agreed that when a relatively low-profile election is held simultaneously with a high-profile election, voter turnout rate of the former tends to be higher than it would be if it were held separately. The central concern of this study is twofold. The first one is to estimate the...