Ending One-Party Dominance: Korea, Taiwan, Mexico

Issue Date January 2001
Volume 12
Issue 1
Page Numbers 30-42
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The astonishing electoral victories by opposition presidential candidates in Korea, Taiwan, and Mexico all followed a remarkably similar pattern, but it is one that may lead to difficulties for democratic consolidation.

About the Author

Dorothy J. Solinger is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine and adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University’s East Asian Institute. Her most recent book is Contesting Citizenship in Urban China (1999). She is also coeditor of States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy (1999).

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