寧靜革命－民主新典範的創造

The Quiet Revolution: Shaping a New Democratic Paradigm

曾建元(Chien-Yuan Tseng)

《中華人文社會學報》 3期 (2005/09) Pp. 40-61

摘要

本文討論的是台灣由黨國威權體制轉型為憲政民主體制的過程，並對其經驗與成就加以整理與評價。儘管反對運動始終存在著，但這一過程基本上是在執政的中國國民黨一黨主導下展開的，其中的關鍵則是黨國領袖李登輝利用民氣和黨國體制的因勢利導，這一成功的民主變革，被世人譽為寧靜革命。但也因為台灣的民主化採取的是變革而非革命的模式，因此國民黨威權統治的遺緒並未能夠完全移除，這成為寧靜革命的代價。

關鍵字

黨國威權體制 ； 民主化 ； 憲政改革 ； 中國國民黨 ； 李登輝

並列摘要

This article is a discussion about the political model of Taiwan's transition from a party-state authoritarian regime to a democratic constitutionalist one. It also tries to discern and evaluate its experience and achievement. Although oppositional pressure existed from the beginning to the end, the whole process was steered by the Kuomintang, the governing party. The key factor was that the Kuomintang leader, Lee Teng-hui, wisely manipulated the people's morale and the party-state power. The successful democratic transformation was therefore named as the Quiet Revolution. However, it was also because the democratization approach taken by Taiwan was a peaceful transformation rather than a radical revolution, the Kuomintang's political legacy could not be completely removed, and this was also the cost and outcome of the Quiet Revolution.

並列關鍵字

party-state authoritarian regime ； democratization ； constitutional reform ； Kuomintang ； Lee Teng-hui