Third Republic
Third Republic
Institutional pathways to constitutional democracy
Research areas
The Third Republic is this site’s research program on how a democratic Chinese republic can be built on evidence rather than slogans. The First and Second Republics name the historical attempts — 1912, and the post-1949 order of the Republic of China (ROC (Taiwan)); the Third Republic is the proposed next founding, studied here in two arms. The evidence arm, on this tree, reconstructs what actually happened: the research foundation, the 2004 speech that named the goal, the working resources, and the article record. The design arm — governance blueprints and model laws — lives under Governance & Public Policy and is linked throughout. Nothing in this section claims a government exists; it assembles the record, and the tested proposals, from which one could be built.
The foundation
- Primary Evidence & Historical Research Foundation — The hub: eleven foundation chapters, from methodology and sources to the constitutional chapters and contested questions.
- Lian Shengde’s 2004 Third Republic Speech — The primary source: the 2004 Washington speech that framed the Third Republic goal.
- Republican & Constitutional Research Resources — The working shelf: republican and constitutional research resources.
- When Media Labels Become Permanent: A Lesson for Democratic Movements — From the article record: how media labels harden into lifetime identities — and what that teaches democratic movements.