2012-08-08
HOT! Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Vol. 8, No.1
This issue collects seven academic essays and two book reviews. The major topics of academic essays are Argentine democratic politics in an era of global economic crisis, a democracy under stress: Greece since 2010, the Korean welfare state in economic hard times, direct democracy upside down, 2007 electoral reform of Mexico, decline of the Japan socialist party, and the effect of the internet on public opinion toward social movements in Hong Kong.