The Taipei Electorate and Voting Behavior: an Analysis of the 1980 Supplementary Election of the Legislative Yuan and the National Assembly

The principal researcher is Professor Hu Fu, NTU political science department and his collaborators are Chen Te-yu and Chu Zhi-hong, both faculty members of NTU\'s political science department.

This research focuses on the election campaigns to the Legislative Yuan and the National Assembly, with our objective to understand the voting behavior of the electorate and the relationship between the political system and voting behavior. This project addresses several issues. The first part concentrates on how individual social backgrounds (socio-economic background, class designation, group identification) and political identification influences voting behavior.