A Changing Political System and Electoral Behavior: An Analysis of the 1992 Election of the Legislative Yuan.

This election continued the institutional setting of the 1992 election of the National Assembly that has the following features:(1) county and city as electoral districts: a legislator is elected through plural member districts which facilitated the electoral mobilization by local factions and did not favor the employment of propaganda usually taken in proportional representation elections.(2) proportional representation and the presentation of an island-wide party list showed the various platforms between the parties.

This display gave this election the character of a national election, rather than a race in an individual district.(3) limited use of TV media: the use of media motivated the parties to come up with national election themes. The questionnaire includes: (1) background variables of the electorate (2) variable of exited psychological orientation about politics and society (3) group identity and consciousness (4) value orientation toward democracy (5) political trust and consciousness of efficacy (6) class identity and class-consciousness (7) party image and party identification (8) voting behavior (9) public opinion and election issues The sampling design of this research includes three stages: sampling method, determination of sample size, and process of sampling.