Beyond the Bipartisan System in the Taipei Mayoral Elections—Rise of Market-Oriented Strategies in Electoral Campaigns?

Tayden Fung Chan and Luna L. Zhao
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Tayden Fung Chan: Institute of Policy Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR
Luna L. Zhao: School of Social Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand. luna.zhao@auckland.ac.nz

China Report, 2023, vol. 59, issue 1, 7-24

Abstract: Current literature on political marketing seldom investigates elections in non-Western regions or countries. The analysis of the Taipei mayoral elections (TMEs) can fill this academic vacuum. This article studies the election campaigns for the TMEs between 1994 and 2018 to understand and analyse the political marketing strategies used by candidates and political parties in Taiwan, an East Asian democracy. While the New Party (NP) stuck to a product-oriented strategy, the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) employed sales-oriented strategies in most TMEs. This article argues that political parties with strong ideologies find it hard to use the market-oriented electoral strategy. The victory of Ko Wen-je in 2014 and 2018 TMEs can be analysed in terms of the successful employment of a market-oriented strategy. However, given the changing environment of local politics, Ko and his party, the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), may not follow market-oriented strategies in future TMEs.

Keywords: Taipei mayoral election; political marketing; Kuomintang; Democratic Progressive Party; Taiwan People’s Party (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/00094455231155329

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