Reproduced from the Quarterly Journal of International Politics, with kind permission of the authors and the Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua University.
Editor's Notes
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Professor Wenfang Tang's article, Nationalism and Electoral Outcome in Taiwan: The Impact of Identity Fence-sitting on Voting Behaviour, examines the impact of the electorate's sense of national identity on voting behaviour, based on public opinion survey data amassed over the four Taiwan elections from 2000 to 2004. The concept of national identity combines an individual's sense of either ethnic Taiwanese or Chinese identity and corresponding advocacy of either Taiwan independence or reunification with China. The article focuses on national identity ‘fence-sitters’—the section of the electorate undecided as to its sense of either Chinese or Taiwanese identity, consequently an advocate of neither independence nor reunification. Professor Tang's