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11:00 am to 12:30 pm
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Brunei Gallery
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In this event, we are pleased to invite Dr Willy Jou to deliver a talk on the impact of electoral reform on party systems in Japan and Taiwan. 

Japan and Taiwan undertook major electoral reform in the 1990s and 2000s, replacing single non-transferrable vote (SNTV) with a mixed parallel (also known as mixed member majoritarian; MMM) system for choosing members of parliament. While many scholars made forecasts about possible consequences of electoral reform for patterns of party competition, the passage of at least two decades allows us to draw more measured conclusions based on analysis of election results through several cycles. 

We trace continuities and changes in the Japanese and Taiwanese party systems since the enactment of electoral reform, and highlight a number of important similarities and differences between the two countries

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Dr Willy Jou is associate professor of political science at Waseda University. His research covers public opinion, political ideologies and democratization, with a regional focus on east Asia. 

photo credit: tenz1225 via flickr

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