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Abstract
Based on the framework of multi-scalar analysis, this article investigates the impacts of party politics on interregional development and governance by looking at the case of Taiwan, 1994–2008. It argues that the development of political democratization in Taiwan since the mid-1990s, although facilitated by the transformation of party politics, was disassociated with an interregional political divide and had complicated the governance issues of interregional transformation at national and transnational levels in Taiwan. The multiple conflicting forces and processes of party politics unexpectedly fragmented the political governances of interregional development at national and transnational levels and impacted its future development.
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Notes
1. “Blue north” and “green south” have become political phrases in media reports to describe the uneven development of the election geography in recent Taiwan. People in northern Taiwan politically prefer to support KMT politicians, who normally use a blue flag as their political color in election campaigns, while people in southern Taiwan most favor the DPP politicians, who use green flag as their political campaign color.
2. His city policy propaganda further portrayed the development of the Kaohsiung area as an operations center for the Asian Pacific by integrating Kaohsiung seaport with the city and the city authority to Kaohsiung seaport, which was independently run and controlled by Ministry of Transportation.
3. Radio interview recorded at the 1999 summer Ocean Capital Exhibition with Kaohsiung Mayor Chang-ting Hsieh.
4. They were typically represented in the city conflicts between Taipei and Kaohsiung several times, especially around the issue of national fiscal redistribution.