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Post-War Taiwanese history can be divided into two periods: The one-party dominance period under the KMT party-state between 1945 and 1987, and the democratization period from 1988 onwards. In the first period, the KMT was the overwhelmingly dominant player in a one-party system; in the second, multiple players competed for political power, per the rules of electoral politics.
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Kwok, Kh. (2017). Taiwan Since 1945. In: When Education Meets Politics in Taiwan. Spotlight on China. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-152-0_3
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