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Cleaning the Straits; Taiwan's young, messy democracy may not be easy on the eyes, but it's made important progress in recent years.
Byline: Jonathan Adams
South Korea isn't the only democratic success story in Asia these days. The competition isn't just coming from Japan; it's Taiwan, rarely recognized as an independent state, that's making some of the best progress. Since holding its first free presidential elections in 1996, Taiwan has most often been associated with the fistfights that occasionally break out in its fractious legislature. But under the surface, the island has been quietly fortifying its political system. Recent surveys by the research group Asian Barometer rank Taiwan third, after Japan and South Korea, on support for liberal democratic values such as civilian rule and an ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Cleaning the Straits; Taiwan's young, messy democracy may not be easy...