Voting for the 24 recalls was held Saturday, and they resulted in an unambiguous victory for the KMT. None of the 24 KMT legislators lost their seat. Only one of the recalls was even close. After a year in which the KMT bungled its response to the recall efforts again and again, it produced a […]| Frozen Garlic
Here is a podcast and a webinar that I’ve done recently. It’s a challenge to get all gussied up for video when you are disabled, and you might notice that I’m wearing a blue T-shirt in both events rather than something more formal. I’ll leave it to you to speculate whether my blue T-shirts are […]| Frozen Garlic
The Central Election Commission has announced the number of eligible voters in each district facing a recall as well as the 25% threshold needed for a recall to pass. Remember, the recall needs to …| Frozen Garlic
I’ve been meaning to write about the polling results and the recalls, but I didn’t get around to it in time. Unfortunately, I had a major computer disaster and have spent the most of th…| Frozen Garlic
Last week the central election Commission announced that 24 recalls will be held on July 26. That’s roughly 1/3 of the country, concentrated mostly in the north and in urban areas. Also, all the le…| Frozen Garlic
The deadlines for recall campaigns against 7 more DPP legislators have now come and gone, and none of them have been able to submit the requisite number of petitions. There are still 6 campaigns left, but none of them look very hopeful. The three yesterday and today, 2 in Taipei and one in New Taipei, […]| Frozen Garlic
Our recent book, Making punches count: The individual logic of legislative brawls, has been chosen as the 2025 Fenno Prize winner, given to the best book published in the previous year in the field of legislative studies. I am humbled and thrilled. It took me about 12 hours to stop shaking with excitement. I guess […]| Frozen Garlic
In my first post about the recalls, I confidently predicted that the two most vulnerable legislators were the two DPP indigenous representatives. Majoritarian logic suggested that, since they were …| Frozen Garlic
For several weeks it seemed like there was no new news on the recalls, and then suddenly there was an avalanche and I quickly fell behind. So let’s try to recap. First round In the first round, rec…| Frozen Garlic
I did not expect to be writing about the recall again so soon, but things are not unfolding as I had expected. We are still in the first stage, in which each recall campaign must be proposed by signatures from at least 1% of the eligible voting population in the district. Since most districts have […]| Frozen Garlic
Dear Legislative Yuan, I’d like to ask you for a small favor. You already helped me a lot by having them brawl a few days before my book about legislative brawls was supposed to come out. I really …| Frozen Garlic