The Study Of DPP's Populist Style Of Political Mobilization

The DPP has gradually formed modeled political mobilization, which means populist style of political mobilization in the process of democracy transition of Taiwan politics. Populism is a product of modernization, the populist political mobilization of the DPP is a form of mobilization made by political democratization in Taiwan, which of highly regional characteristics of Taiwan. The populism within the political background of Taiwan is more named as a political strategy. The DPP's populist mobilization model is mainly reflected as follows:the building of such mobilization agendas as "provincial clan (ethnic group)" and "unification vs independence" with divisive social effects, which add strong implication of ethnic politics and nationalism to political mobilization; marketing propaganda and effective organizational mobilization make the populist political mobilization possible; the referendums for mobilization and policies for bribing votes by the DPP reflect that populism is a political strategy,which more resort to the public interest or prejudice. The causes of the DPP's populist political mobilization are as follows. The political process of democratic transition and the intense competition among parties; The practice of direct democracy led directly to the appearance of the DPP's political mobilization in the form of populism; The special social and historical factors, such as ethnic politics and national identity issues, determine the features of the DPP's populist political practices. In addition to some degree of positive effect on Taiwan's democratic transformation and political participation of the public, more concern is some negative impact on political development of Taiwan and cross-strait relations, which namely include:the conflict between ethnic identity and citizenship identity; inferior election culture; political internal fiction and indifference; the separate effects on Taiwan's society; the intensifying national identity crisis. The DPP's populist model of political mobilization will show overall a declining trend in the future, whose causes are as follows. Taiwan's democracy and civil society continue to develop towards consolidation and maturation. The DPP government fails to yield satisfactory performance, and self-clean image on democracy and reform has been fading. The KMT has returned to power and the improving cross-strait relations. However, the close association between democracy and populism in both theory and the practice, the DPP's own ideological orientation, and several other factors such as the inertia of former mobilization model lead that the DPP will still choose or be forced to adopt populist strategy of political mobilization, which means there is certain continuation and repeat in the declining trend of the DPP's populism in a long time.