The historical institutionalism analysis of Taiwan's adminstrative reform

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Title:	The historical institutionalism analysis of Taiwan's adminstrative reform
Authors:	史美強 Shih, Mei-Chiang
Contributors:	東海大學行政管理暨政策學系
Keywords:	administrative reformnational critical juncture developmental state historical institutionalism national development conference path dependence punctuated equilibrium
Date:	2012-06
Issue Date:	2016-07-04T02:59:37Z (UTC)
Publisher:	International Institute of Administrative Sciences
Abstract:	Government restructuring has been discussed extensively in Taiwan for more than three decades, and the first NPM-style administrative reform programme, which emphasizes ‘a leaner and businesslike government’, was launched in 1996. Since then, NPM has been the key guideline producing a strong path-dependence effect for subse- quent administrative reform programmes in Taiwan. This article examines the trajectory of administrative reform in Taiwan from 1949 to 2010, the latter being the year when the Organizational Act of the Executive Yuan was passed, which symbolically represents the end of the current phase of administrative reform. Similar to many Asian countries, exogenous and endogenous factors have induced efforts at administrative reform in Taiwan. Although it is argued that it is difficult to generate any common path of admin- istrative reform among Asian countries, the analysis of the case in Taiwan may provide some observations for future discussions on this topic, such as evidence of political manipulation, the transformation of the role of the state, the desire for an indigenous reform strategy, and the demand to revitalize the civil service system.
Relation:	International Review of Adminstrative Science ,78(2),305-327
Appears in Collections:	[Department of Public Management and Policy ] Periodical Articles

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