Taiwan\'s Election and Democratization Study, 2005-2008 (IV): The Presidential Election, 2008 (TEDS2008P)

It aims at exploring voting behavior in Taiwan』s 2008 presidential election. Main themes of this project include the electoral impacts of voter』s social attributes, party identification, candidate image, issue position, social context, local factions, political values, and mass media.

An integrated framework derived from these themes is provided to survey people』s political participation in the 2008 presidential election. In addition, it continues the core research concerns of previous TEDS studies and brings in specific characteristics of the 2008 presidential election. Based on the principle of 「process open and results sharing,」 the TEDS Planning and Executive Committee firstly prepares the main research framework and core questionnaires and then welcomes other academic fellows, at home and abroad, bring their research questions into the project on the one hand.