Jih-wen Lin is associate research fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and associate professor at National Chengchi University and National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. His articles have appeared recently in Electoral Studies, China Quarterly, the Journal of East Asian Studies, and Issues and Studies.
For decades, Japan and Taiwan elected their legislatures using the single nontransferable vote. Recently, however, both countries adopted new electoral systems. What explains this trend?
This book compares the experiences of diverse countries, from Latin America to southern Africa, from Uruguay, Japan, and Taiwan to Israel, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
