Ethnographie Studies of Voting among the Austronesian Paiwan—The Role of Paiwan Chiefs in the Contemporary State System of Taiwan
Bibliographic record
Abstract
T his paper analyzes the changing role of chiefs in Paiwan politics with the introduction of a multi-level electoral system in the early 1950s and the multi-party system in 1986. It examines how democratic representation, as effected through the electoral system, can accommodate the hierarchical political system of the Paiwan on a regional level, especially in the Northern Paiwan area. The analysis is based on ethnographic investigations in Pingtung County and archival materials from Taiwu Township office. This paper studies the mix of Paiwan regional politics with local connections that occur in the three levels of the election process, and maps out the different factors that play into Paiwan elections at different political levels. It demonstrates the vitality of the symbol of the nobility in contemporary regional Paiwan politics and the ways in which individuals have manipulated the symbols of the nobility in the state electoral system. The traditional idioms of “house” (umaq), “settlement” (qinalan) and “first-born” (vusam) continue to play an important part in Paiwan electoral strategies on a regional level. The adoption of formal electoral and bureaucratic practices should not be taken as evidence of one-way acculturation and it is clear that indigenous values and customs, rather than simply being replaced, are in fact shaping these “imported” practices to a certain degree. However, engaging in national politics has also brought about change in local political dynamics.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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