把「政黨」找回來：台灣選舉研究的失衡與未來發展

Bring The Parties Back In:The Imbalance and Future of Electoral Studies in Taiwan

本文以內容分析法檢視台灣六份主要政治學期刊中關於選舉的文章，發現多數文章都以「選民」為研究對象、研究方法上以「大樣本的抽樣調查」為主流、並一面倒地使用「統計分析」。對於這樣的集體現象，本文從研究對象、研究方法與分析方法三個面向來探討如何讓選舉研究有更多的選擇並且多元發展。首先，政黨不應該在選舉研究中被忽視，因為選舉是政黨爭取選民支持的過程，忽視政黨就無法勾勒完整的選舉過程。第二，抽樣調查不是研究方法的唯一選擇，尤其是關於研究政黨時經常會遇到因為樣本數少而導致抽樣與資料變異程度不足的困難，其實可以採用由偏重個案取向的小樣本研究社群所提出的方法論來解決。

This paper examines articles on elections published in six Taiwanese journals on political science by using content analysis. The results show that what these articles have in common is that they focus on ‘voters’, using ‘survey data’, and they analyze data using ‘statistical methods’. This research therefore argues, firstly, that political parties should not be ignored in electoral studies, because elections are the process by which political parties try to attract voters. The picture of electoral competition will not be complete without political parties. Secondly,