CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Sun, Qi |
|---|---|
| Title | The Power Change of Authoritarian and Democratic Regimes during the Times of Crisis - A Comparison between Mainland China and Taiwan |
| Summary | The thesis is to explore whether there is any difference on the power change of the executive, legislative and judiciary branch between authoritarian and democratic states during the times of crisis. There are mainly two theories in this field. Prerogative executive theories believes that the executive is about to be granted additional power at their will without any formal and bounded executive theory contends that the additional executive power is provided with written and institutional constraints. A majority of existing research supports that during crisis the executive power increases. However, some studies come to divergent conclusions. There is a contradiction on the findings and there are few studies focusing on power change of authoritarian country as well as the difference between democratic and authoritarian ones. To fill in this research gap, this thesis selects three main crises from 1995 to 2022 respectively in China and Taiwan as cases and employs quantitative methods to conduct the analysis. The results shows that Taiwan’s power change in 2003 SARS and Taiwan and mainland’s power change in 2020 Covid-19 confirm the first hypothesis, but the average crisis year effect is extremely weak. After the 2020, China’s three branches power change confirms hypothesis two. However, during and after other crises, the power changing trend in mainland and Taiwan does not meet expectation. |
| Supervisor | Schneider Carsten |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/sun_qi.pdf |
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