台灣民粹主義的來源與內涵:從亞洲民主動態調查2010年台灣區計畫

Abstract

摘要 本論文主要是探討台灣民粹主義的來源及其內涵的學術研究，我們首先要強調的是，民粹主義的學術概念應該是中性的，民粹主義與民粹運動可以對於當代的民主政治產生威脅與強化的兩種效果。從正面而言；民粹主義可以強化與補足民主政治與代議機構的不足；從負面來看，民粹主義會造成當代自由民主與憲政人權的傷害，但過去對於民粹主義的學術討論都僅僅存在於精英層級，而從未有對於民粹群眾基礎的相關討論，但是如果不存在數量龐大的民粹支持者，就算政治菁英企圖發動民粹運動以奪取更多的政治資源相信也有其困難度吧，因此，我們期望透過經驗資料的分析，來找出台灣民眾當中是否擁有數量龐大的民粹群眾基礎。

關鍵字：民粹主義；民粹群眾基礎；政治參與；經驗研究。

Abstract This thesis mainly discusses the source and the intention of the Taiwan populism. Firstly, we must put emphasis on the academic concept of the populism is median. Populism and populist actions can produce threat and strength effect to modern democracy. From the Positive side , populism can strengthen and improve the loss of democratic politics and parliamentary system ; from the negative side , populism will make the threat to liberal democracy and constitutional human rights. However, the past academic discussions only focus on the political elites. The academic discussions about the mass do not exist. If the populism mass is very few, how can the political elites make the populism actions to increase their political interests? Thus, we want through the Taiwan empirical statistical data to find the populism mass of Taiwan is real or not.