It may be interesting to note the biggest winners of 2016 elections will probably be those political parties who were most aesthetically effective in their approaches to political campaigning...
The presidential vote and district votes usually took precedence in past elections, but in this upcoming election, party votes seem to have taken the spotlight...
The Third Force adopted an electoral strategy which did not seek to directly challenge the DPP. But despite some parties vowing to avoid cooperation with the DPP, in the end this happened. What does this mean for the Third Force?...
We might draw parallels between past November local elections in Hong Kong and Taiwan 2016 elections in regard to Taiwan’s “Third Force” and Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Soldiers”...
While there are many analyses that insist on highlighting the disconnection between Taiwan’s unusual political tremors and those of the world’s, comparisons must be drawn regarding the rise of third parties after the Sunflower Movement and across the world....
In early April, New Bloom’s Brian Hioe interviewed the Social Democratic Party's Jennifer Lu (呂欣潔) by Skype. Although several months have passed since then, we still believe the interview still to be insightful about the Social Democratic Party and its political positions in the present. This was our second interview with Jennifer Lu, we first interviewed her in August of 2014....