Party Alternation, Civil-Military Relations and the Democratic Consolidation in Taiwan
Author: Chun-Ming Chen
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In recent years Taiwan has witnessed changing relations emerged between thecivil and the military sectors. Some consider the completion of nationalization ofarmed forces and civilian control indicators conducive to democratic consolidation.Others reject the proposition by citing the cases in which nationalization of armedforces contributes to military control of government. In an attempt to solve thepuzzle, this paper tries to catch the whole picture of civil military interactionsthrough figuring out story lines of major competing theories. This paper then movestoward working on the integration of main arguments of civil-military relations anddemocratic consolidation literatures. Following an effort to illuminate the preciserole of Taiwan’s military reflected by relatively few published books and articles,the author comes up with an analytical framework for indigenous civil-militaryrelations research. Hopefully it will facilitate the implementation of both case andcomparative studies.