An Interdisciplinary Study of Voting Behavior in the Presidential Election in 2000

The purpose of the project is to explore the following problems: 1. to explore the factors affecting voters\' choice in the presidential election; 2. to understand the change of voter\'s party identification and the development of party politics in Taiwan; 3. to understand the effects of ethnic identity and ethnic background on the voting behavior; 4. to understand the continuities and changes of voters\' electoral behavior; 5. to test the effects of forecasting election models.