Author: Dorothy J. Solinger | Journal of Democracy

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).

January 2001, Volume 12, Issue 1

Ending One-Party Dominance: Korea, Taiwan, Mexico

Dorothy J. Solinger

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.