ABSTRACT
Representative democracy, in contrast to participatory democracy, means that the legislators or the parliamentarians are representing the interests of people more broadly and their constituents more specifically. As a functioning democracy, how Taiwan's legislators cope with the variety and complexity of interests that they purport to represent is of great interest to any student of democracy, especially in the Asian context. This chapter aims to provide an examination of how constituency service in Taiwan, an essential part of democratic representation, evolves from a single non-transferable vote (SNTV) to a single-member district electoral system.
