Restructuring government in Taiwan

Asian Survey

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 251-268

  McBeath, Gerald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL REFORM; REFORM PROCESS;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0033875186     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3021132     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. China Times, April 21, 1997; and United Daily News, June 19, 1997.
2. China Times, April 21, 1997; and United Daily News, June 19, 1997.
3. See Tun-jen Cheng and Yi-shing Liao, "Taiwan in 1997: An Embattled Government in Search of New Opportunities," Asian Survey 38:1 (January 1998), p. 55.
4. United Daily News, May 19, 1997.
5. Central Standing Committee, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), Public Opinion on Constitutional Revisions Eliminating Provincial Elections (in Chinese) (Taipei: Public Policy Research Institute, June 25, 1997).
6. For a review of the National Affairs Conference, see Linda Chao and Ramon H. Myers, The First Chinese Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), pp. 198-215.
7. National Development Conference Resolutions (Taipei: Government Information Office, December 1996).
8. Local factions are the bedrock of support for many KMT leaders who exchange resources for the votes factions collect. The operation of factions is least impaired in elections for rural townships. See Ming-tong Chen, "Local Factions and Elections in Taiwan's Democratization" in Taiwan's Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition, ed. Hung-mao Tien (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996), p. 19.
9. Taiwan Province Government, Legal Opinion on the Public Legal Status of Taiwan Province after the Constitutional Revision Eliminating Elections (in Chinese) (Taichung, July 1998).
10. See Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan, ROC, Subcommittee Plan for the Adjustment of Personnel, Provincial Government Functions, Operations, and Organization (in Chinese) (Taipei: Committee for the Reorganization and Improvement of Performance Efficiency of Taiwan Province, 1998); and Mobilization Committee for Restructuring Government, Executive Yuan, Mobilization Plan for the Restructuring of Government (in Chinese) (Taipei, 1998).
11. See Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan, ROC, Subcommittee Plan for the Adjustment of Personnel, Provincial Government Functions, Operations, and Organization (in Chinese) (Taipei: Committee for the Reorganization and Improvement of Performance Efficiency of Taiwan Province, 1998); and Mobilization Committee for Restructuring Government, Executive Yuan, Mobilization Plan for the Restructuring of Government (Taipei, 1998).
12. See Legislative Yuan, ROC, General Explanation of the Draft Revision to Part of the Law on the Allocation of Government Revenues and Expenditures (Taipei: Interior Committee, 1998).
13. DPP legislator and member of the Interior Committee, Legislative Yuan, ROC, interview by author, Taipei, March 18, 1999.
14. Officials in the National Treasury Department, Ministry of Finance, ROC, interviews by author, Taipei, March 13, 1999.
15. Central Personnel Administration, Executive Yuan, ROC, Comparison of Expenditures by Agency, Fiscal Years 1999 and 2000 (in Chinese) (Taipei, 1999), pp. 58, 69, 267.
16. Central Daily News, October 10, 1998.
17. KMT legislator, interview by author, Taipei, March 16, 1999.
18. Central Daily News, August 28, 1999.
19. China Times, June 9, 1999.
20. In addition to personal interviews with city and county administrators and council members, surveys were sent to chiefs/mayors and council speakers in each of Taiwan's 21 counties and large cities.
21. United Daily News, March 15, 1999.
22. Ibid., March 20, 1999.
23. Finance office staff, Taipei County Government, interview by author, Taipei, March 19, 1999.
24. Central Daily News, March 19, 1999.
25. Finance officials, Taipei City Government, interview by author, Taipei, March 22, 1999.
26. Central Daily News, April 19, 1999.
27. United Daily News, June 14, 1999.
28. See Lee Teng-hui, "Understanding Taiwan," Foreign Affairs 78:6 (November/December 1999), p. 12.