John Fuh-sheng Hsieh is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, USA.Robert Henry Cox is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, USA

• Introduction. 1.Regime Type and Governance: The Case of Taiwan. 2.Managing Voting for Democracy in Taiwan. 3.When Democracy Meets Bureaucracy: Studying Reforms of Taiwan’s Civil Service since Democratization in the Late 1980s. 4.The Mutinous Mutation of the Developmental State in Taiwan Revisited. 5.From Developmentalism to Post-industrialism: The Evolution of the Welfare State in Taiwan. 6.Environmental Protection after Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation: Is Democracy Working for the Environment? 7.From Political Democratization to the Claim for Social Justice. 8.When Democracy Meets the COVID-19 Pandemic: Taiwan’s Experience. 9.Charting the Way Forward: Taiwan’s Civil-Military Relations after 2016. 10.Taiwan’s Domestic Politics, Economic Development and National Security and Their Links to Foreign Policy and Democratization. 11.David vs. Goliath: Taiwan’s Policy Toward China.

John Fuh-sheng Hsieh is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, USA.Robert Henry Cox is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, USA

• Introduction. 1.Regime Type and Governance: The Case of Taiwan. 2.Managing Voting for Democracy in Taiwan. 3.When Democracy Meets Bureaucracy: Studying Reforms of Taiwan’s Civil Service since Democratization in the Late 1980s. 4.The Mutinous Mutation of the Developmental State in Taiwan Revisited. 5.From Developmentalism to Post-industrialism: The Evolution of the Welfare State in Taiwan. 6.Environmental Protection after Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation: Is Democracy Working for the Environment? 7.From Political Democratization to the Claim for Social Justice. 8.When Democracy Meets the COVID-19 Pandemic: Taiwan’s Experience. 9.Charting the Way Forward: Taiwan’s Civil-Military Relations after 2016. 10.Taiwan’s Domestic Politics, Economic Development and National Security and Their Links to Foreign Policy and Democratization. 11.David vs. Goliath: Taiwan’s Policy Toward China.

John Fuh-sheng Hsieh is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, USA.Robert Henry Cox is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, USA

• Introduction. 1.Regime Type and Governance: The Case of Taiwan. 2.Managing Voting for Democracy in Taiwan. 3.When Democracy Meets Bureaucracy: Studying Reforms of Taiwan’s Civil Service since Democratization in the Late 1980s. 4.The Mutinous Mutation of the Developmental State in Taiwan Revisited. 5.From Developmentalism to Post-industrialism: The Evolution of the Welfare State in Taiwan. 6.Environmental Protection after Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation: Is Democracy Working for the Environment? 7.From Political Democratization to the Claim for Social Justice. 8.When Democracy Meets the COVID-19 Pandemic: Taiwan’s Experience. 9.Charting the Way Forward: Taiwan’s Civil-Military Relations after 2016. 10.Taiwan’s Domestic Politics, Economic Development and National Security and Their Links to Foreign Policy and Democratization. 11.David vs. Goliath: Taiwan’s Policy Toward China.