Political entrepreneurship and the Ko-P phenomenon in Taiwan’s democratizationFootnote^*

* This paper was finished in mid-2015, before the January 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections in Taiwan. The outcome of the elections confirms the key points made in this paper.

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