ABSTRACT
In order to examine party change, a method of measuring party positions is required. I have made use of a combination of election-propaganda content analysis, elite interviews and mass surveys to track party change on core issue spectrums. This chapter introduces these datasets. These offer some preliminary answers to the following empirical questions: (1) Do Taiwan’s parties stress campaign issues? (2) What are the most salient political issues in Taiwan? (3) Do the parties stress different issues?
