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| Title: | Old Wine in New Bottle?The Historical Instituionalism Analysis of Taiwan's Administrative Reform. |
| Authors: | 史美強
Shih, Mei-Chiang
王光旭
Wang, Guang-Xu |
| Contributors: | 東海大學行政管理暨政策學系
國立臺南大學行政管理學系 |
| Date: | 2010-07-31 |
| Issue Date: | 2016-07-04T06:13:53Z (UTC)
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| Abstract: | Globalization has been the driving force for administrative reforms for many countries since 1990s, and Taiwan is not an exception. In an age of rapid globalization, administrative efforts have to seriously address challenges from four domains—geographic space, time, the complexities of public issues, and actors in policy networks—that are critically related to the issues of legitimacy and accountability. Under the circumstances of ever-decreasing resources and ever-increasing citizen demands, Taiwan’s government also tries to improve its competitiveness and several administrative reform proposals have been carried out.
Government restructuring has been discussed extensively in Taiwan for more than three decades, and a NPM style administrative reform program which emphasizes “a leaner and businesslike government” has been launched since 1997. Two major turning points occurred in the history of Taiwan’s administrative reform movement. First, on October 9 1998, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan passed the Taiwan Provincial Government Function, Business and Organization Restructuring Act in which Taiwan Provincial Government had been de facto abolished. After the downsizing of the provincial government, the original four hierarchical administrative levels have become three vertical levels in Taiwan’s administration system. This has had profound impacts on the daily operation of Taiwan’s government. Second, on June 23, 2004, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan passed the Basic Law of the Executive Yuan Organizations in which it is mandated to downsize the executive branch of the central government. An amendment of the Basic Law of the Executive Yuan Organizations and a re-organization proposal were prepared by the Executive Yuan and had been submitted to the Legislative Yuan for review in 2009. This reform package was passed on January 12, 2010. According to the proposal, the number of Ministries has to be reduced from the current 37 to 29. Changes induced by this ground-breaking reform initiative are imminent. The functions of the traditional core Ministries will be strengthened; the functions of several Ministries will be divided and merged into new ones; service delivery systems and procedures have to be integrated; personnel has to be relocated; and laws and regulations have to be amended. There are extensive and complicate integration and coordination involved in the process of reorganization.
The proposed study intends to examine the evolution process of Taiwan’s administrative reform movement from the perspective of historical institutionalism. Historical institutionalist,
Paul Pierson, employs the concept of “retrenchment’ to depict the expansion and persistence of welfare state in democratic polities. Renowned concepts such as “positive feedback” and “path dependence” are frequently used to explain this entrenched process. Two critical junctures, the downsizing of the provincial government and the reorganization of the Executive Yuan, are adopted as critical cases to reveal the phenomenon of the institutional entrenchment occurred in the reform movement for the past twenty years in Taiwan.
Literature review and in-depth interview methods are adopted to identify events related to the entrenchment from 1987 to 2010. By focusing on the policy domain and its political milieu, this study will examine the critical factors behind institutional entrenchment in Taiwan’s administrative reform movement. |
| Relation: | Hong Kong Institute of Education主辦，2010，International Symposium on "Public Administration in East Asia: Legacies, Experiences and Reforms |
| Appears in Collections: | [行政管理暨政策學系所] 會議論文
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