[ADRN Working Paper] The State of Vertical Accountability in Taiwan (Interim Report)
Working Paper
Chin-en Wu | 2024-09-12
Chin-en Wu, an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, explains that Taiwan has sustained a relatively robust vertical accountability structure, due to universal suffrage, automatic voter registration, and consistently fair elections. However, Wu highlights challenges including a lack of debate on key socioeconomic issues, external interference from Mainland China through disinformation, and government actions that threaten electoral fairness. He also examines the rise of national referendums, which increase citizen political participation but hinder well-informed decision-making by forcing binary choices with limited room for compromise.