"With Taiwan becoming more and more democratic, politicians must be concerned with the people's opinions. They need large staffs to collect polling and survey data, which are used when setting policy," Yang Chih-hung points out. And so the description of political leaders in the age of democracy as "followers of the crowd" is right on target.
「當台灣越來越走向民主時代後，領袖必須以民意為依歸，還需要眾多的幕僚與智囊，替他蒐集情報，提出建言，作為決策的參考」，楊志弘指出，因此有人將民主時代的領袖特質定義為「最會跟著群眾走的人」形容得十分貼切。