The Political Socialization of University Students on Taiwan: the Changing Political Orientations of Youth in Twenty-five years

The ourpose of this research are: 1. to understand the political orientations of university students in the new century; 2. to analyze the changes of students' political orientations among 1975,1991 and 2001; 3. to realize the differences in degrees of political knowledge and participation of youth; 4. to compare the relative influence and the changing impacts of different socialization agencies; 5. to test the validity of "a three-stage causal model" in order to explore the process of socialization.