The emergence of the "black gold" issue has a lot to do with the "indigenization" of the KMT that began in the Lee Teng-hui era. Wang Tso-yung believes that today's black-gold phenomena-such as organized crime bosses reinventing themselves as elected officials, and government policies and appointments reflecting pressure from big business-did not occur during Chiang Ching-kuo's time due to the absence of full-scale elections.
台灣黑金問題浮上台面，跟兩位蔣總統之後，國民黨政權本土化有絕大的關係，王作榮認為，蔣經國時代不搞大型選舉，因此類似今天黑道漂白，財團施加壓力影響政府政策、人事等事還不致出現。