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Election Study Center Important Achievements, 2015
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Poster：Ms. Chien-Ru Chu ╱ Post date：2015-08-10 I. International
1. CSES Conference
Election Study Center (ESC) was the organizer of International Conference on “2015 CSES – Representation and Participation around the World” at March, 2015. The conference was held under three topics, which is “Accountability in Democracies”, “Political Attitude and Knowledge”, “Generation, Attitude, and Voting Behavior”.
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world. Participating countries include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The resulting data are deposited along with voting, demographic, district and macro variables. The studies are then merged into a single, free, public dataset for use in comparative study and cross-level analysis. ESC research fellow Chi Huang is also the member of the CSES Module 5 Planning Committee.
The duration of the conference was 3 days, 20 delegates from various countries attended the conference and 7 articles were presented on the topic of “The Cognitive and Affective Components of Political Attitudes under Different Circumstances”.
2. Signing of memorandum of collaboration with Japan ICSS, improving both sides’ communication
II. Research
1. CSES Conference
Election Study Center (ESC) was the organizer of International Conference on “2015 CSES – Representation and Participation around the World” at March, 2015. The conference was held under three topics, which is “Accountability in Democracies”, “Political Attitude and Knowledge”, “Generation, Attitude, and Voting Behavior”.
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world. Participating countries include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The resulting data are deposited along with voting, demographic, district and macro variables. The studies are then merged into a single, free, public dataset for use in comparative study and cross-level analysis. ESC research fellow Chi Huang is also the member of the CSES Module 5 Planning Committee.
The duration of the conference was 3 days, 20 delegates from various countries attended the conference and 7 articles were presented on the topic of “The Cognitive and Affective Components of Political Attitudes under Different Circumstances”.
2. Signing of memorandum of collaboration with Japan ICSS, improving both sides’ communication
ESC and the Center for Civil Society, Inter-university Consortium for Social Sciences (CCS-ICSS) signed a memorandum of collaboration at March, 2015 to improve education and research academic exchange of both sides.
The Japan side signatory representative Professor Yoshiaki Kobayashi from Japan Keio University Faculty of Law and Political Science is also the ESC associate. ESC will benefit through Professor Kobayashi’s profession to obtain more multi-perspectives on election system comparative study and local autonomous study.
Asian Election Studies (AES) was launched by ESC in 2007, the research team is operated with Taiwan as the core issue and the study result also go public. Beside Japan Keio University, ESC also signed a memorandum of collaboration with Korea Social Science Data Center (KDSC), which enables ESC to proceed comparative study of election system by collecting Taiwan, Japan, Korea three parties election information.
II. Research
The English publication “Mixes-Member Electoral Systems and Executive-Centric Theory: Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond” in 2016.
“Mixed-Member Electoral Systems and Executive-Centric Theory: Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond” is edited by Nathan Batto, Alex Tan, Gary Cox and ESC research fellow Chi Huang, the book has already enter into last editing session and will be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2016. This book will explain the reason of the different effect in Taiwan and Japan which are adopting the similar mixed member system. The 2016 publication will also include e-book version to benefit the student.
III. Technology Development
1. Pollcracy Lab
2. e-CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview)
III. Technology Development
1. Pollcracy Lab
Pollcracy Lab develops an internet polling system, which will collect interviewee’s e-mail address through telephone interview initially, a notification will be sent through e-mail informing the interviewee to complete the questionnaire afterward. The lab has already collected over 10,000 samples. Pollcracy Lab can observe the public opinion instantaneously, at the same time parallel analysis and the development of the technique between internet poll and telephone interview will be allowed. This survey mode can save the cost and time of the interview, and allowing tracking the same group interviewee in the long term. For example, questionnaires will be sent to interviewees during 2016 Presidential Election, the everyday changing circumstances will be able to be tracked by the Pollcracy Lab through the specific characteristic of the latter. Each candidate approval rate can be analyzed in real time.
e-CAPI is a computer assisted personal interviewing system developed by ESC. The interviewer will only need a tablet pc to interview. The system will be able to cost down the printing of the questionnaire and the inconvenience of carrying the questionnaire. At the same time, it will also save the time of the information input. The system is now available in nationwide personal interview project. ESC is also developing an Android operating version while the former version is operated under Windows system. This developing attempt not only save the cost of the personal interview, but also adapted to the device’s requirement.
3. Taiwan’s Political Geographic Information System, TPGIS
3. Taiwan’s Political Geographic Information System, TPGIS
The user of Taiwan's Political Geography Information System (TPGIS) will be able to search the election result and demography information through the map interface.
Data collected in TPGIS cover all the major national and local elections as well as referenda since Taiwan's democratization in 1991. The basic geographical unit of these data is village, the smallest administrative unit in Taiwan, the searching function includes various election result, party forces, effective number of parties, comparative study of village, annual demographic information and statistic chart, comparative election study. TPGIS is regarded as the world most complete Taiwan election GIS database. The database is delicate into village-level, the scope includes multi-level executive, legislator and nation-wide/local referendum. On the other hand, TPGIS is included in Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), an affirmation of domestic micro and macro information quality in the international society.
Reference link：http://esc.nccu.edu.tw/main.php
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