Abstraction
Vol.52, No.3
Governance Research. Part I. The Emergence
Introduction
Yi-Tung
Chang (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Development, National Pingtung
University)
Special Issue Article
1. A
Study on the Service Networks of Typhoon Morakot Post-Disaster Reconstruction
in the South Taiwan: A Governance Approach to Disaster
Jen-Jen
Lin (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Fu Jen University)
Wan-I
Lin (Professor, Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University)
2.Vulnerable
Culture of Info-technological Risk Governance: Examining the Institutional
Ignorance to Electronization of Medical Records
Kuei-Tien
Chou (Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan
University)
Hsin-Chih
Chen (Master, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan
University)
3. Executive
Power Operation and Local Governance: Case Studies of Energy Issues in Taiwan
and in Romania
Chun-Hao
Chang (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tunghai University)
4. Governing
EJ: Reading the First Environmental Justice Lawsuit Self-referentially
Chih-Tung
Huang (Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, National Open
University)
5. The
Conflict of Developing Kinmen National Park: Perspective of Network Management
Hen-Chin
Chen (Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, National
Taipei University)
Chia-Chi
Chang (Master, Department of Public Administration and Policy, National Taipei
University)
Research Note
6. Thinking
About the Evolution of Cultural Governance and the Transformation of Cultural
Laws
Huang-Ding
Liao (Lawyer; Secretary General, Taiwan Cultural Law Association)
Special Issue Article
A Study on the Service Networks of Typhoon Morakot
Post-Disaster Reconstruction in the South Taiwan: A Governance Approach to
Disaster
Jen-Jen
Lin (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Fu Jen University)
Wan-I
Lin (Professor, Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University)
In 2009 Typhoon Morakot caused severe damage to the southern part of
Taiwan and relocated people were mostly indigenous people. Therefore
significant cultural issues among different ethnic groups have been highlighted
in the post-disaster reconstruction process. The purpose of this paper is to
address the problem of services networks in the approach of disaster
governance. The results come from a study of the reconstruction process in the
affected area, Kaohsiung City and Ping Tung County. In the paper, it is
examined the structure of service networks, including administrative
arrangements, service networks between NGOs and traditional authority in
affected village. This research is designed in particular to deepen our understanding
as to how ethnic minorities, who already suffer from an inequality of the
distribution of economic and political power, are excluded in the policy making
process.
Keywords:
Typhoon Morakot, disaster governance, reconstruction, indigenous people
Vulnerable Culture of Info-technological Risk
Governance: Examining the Institutional Ignorance to Electronization of Medical
Records
Kuei-Tien
Chou (Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan
University)
Hsin-Chih
Chen (Master, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan
University)
This article argued a series of problems in the governmental
decision-making and governing pattern. Through sorting anti-informational risk
movements and divulgence of medical records over the years, we featured the
systemic risk affect the governing problems of electronization of medical
records (EMR). We tried to analyze a decision-making pattern continued linear
risk assessment and how it will lead to public ignorance on EMR. From results
of several public information risk perception surveys, the publics worried
about their data leaking or misusing, but fell into the myth of cost-efficiency
analysis easily. Moreover, if the systemic risks (OECD, 2003) keep deepening,
it will make the whole society more vulnerable and cause the governing
transformation for newly technology facing serious struggles.
The problem here is a social system hidden and delaying risk, formed
by the authoritative expert politics, the closed elite decision-making pattern
and the regulative culture, incapable of responding the societal requirements.
Hence, the social vulnerability increases more and more, even higher than
western society’s to respond newly technological impacts.
Keywords:
institutional ignorance, societal ignorance, systemic risks, social
vulnerability, dilemma of governance innovation
Executive Power Operation and Local Governance: Case
Studies of Energy Issues in Taiwan and in Romania
Chun-Hao
Chang (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tunghai University)
Taking the hotly debated energy issues in Taiwan and in Romania as
its research focus, this paper attempts to analyze how executive powers from
the central government intervene in local governance and politics. This paper
firstly draws on governance theory to delineate the triangular power relation
among the two executive heads, namely the president and the premier, and local
grass-roots governance, in Taiwan and in Romania. It is argued that for Taiwan
and Romania, as the unitary state that emphasizes decentralization, when it
comes to issues concerning both national and local interests, the two-headed
executive framework and executive-legislative interaction do influence the
leading executive’s policy, as well as the central government’s instruction to
the local government. Based on the cases of energy controversy in the two
countries, this paper also suggests that the executive heads’ power relation
and their political interests are main factors which put energy issues in the
dilemma of promoting economic development or advocating environmental protection.
Keywords:
two-headed executive power, governance, cohabitation, semi-presidentialism,
energy issue
Governing EJ: Reading the First Environmental Justice
Lawsuit Self-referentially
Chih-Tung
Huang (Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, National Open
University)
This article adopts a Barnesian self-referential approach to
analyzing the first environmental justice (EJ) lawsuit, Bean v. Southwestern
Waste Management, Corp.(Bean). According to Barry Barnes, a society could be
understood as a self-referring knowledge system and this system is made valid
only because the knowledge carriers within it has shared some common knowledge.
That means, a society is everything its members know about it, make reference
to each other, and act in ways which (re-)confirm their original “knowing”. For
example, a “leader” is a leader only to the extent that one's followers regard
him/her as such, and treat him/her accordingly.
In this article, I argue that a similar self-referential nature can
be found in Bean as well. That is, in coming to believe that Bean is somehow
EJ-related, all Bean's social actors constitute the very context that makes
Bean an EJ case. Seen from this angle, EJ loses its static connotations that it
tends to have when conceived solely as a regime, and shows that it is itself
socially constructed. If this analysis is correct, then EJ is nothing but how
Bean's plaintiffs, defendants, lawyers, judges, and other social actors know
about, believe in, and act on what it is. Since we are ourselves the context
which makes EJ what it is, EJ is how we understand, treat, regard and measure
it.
Keywords:
environmental justice, distributive justice, self-referring,
circular-definition
The Conflict of Developing Kinmen National Park: Perspective
of Network Management
Hen-Chin
Chen (Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, National
Taipei University)
Chia-Chi
Chang (Master, Department of Public Administration and Policy, National Taipei
University)
With the increasing democratic consciousness, various policy
stakeholders affect policy outcomes. Based on that concept, this paper tries to
analyze the causes of conflict between local residents within the scope of the
National Park, mainly focusing on the reason why the people against the objects
of the development of National Park?
Since the establishment of Kinmen National Park, the interaction
between Kinmen National Park and the local residents has increased, and by
following the common norms and obligations, the form of policy network is
formatting. However, facing the complexity problems, the cooperation collapsed.
Through the questionnaire of the people in the Kinmen National Park,
this paper then applies logistic regression analysis and in-depth interview to
understand the various factors. The results show that the local people do not
identify themselves with the National Park: (i) residents lack proper
understanding of the National Park and they are taking a step back from
consensus building, (ii) the problems of uneven distribution of resources still
exist, and (iii) the implementation of the regulations are too strict.
Keywords:
Network Management, Kinmen National Park, Uncertainty, Conflict
Research Note
Thinking About the Evolution of Cultural Governance and
the Transformation of Cultural Laws
Huang-Ding
Liao (Lawyer; Secretary General, Taiwan Cultural Law Association)
This article is about the review and the reflection on Taiwan’s
cultural laws after World War II to 2013. Thinking about the cultural laws to
implement cultural governance. The laws are the symbols presenting the values
and the spirits of the times. They are more the presentations of official
values. From the critical viewpoint of cultural studies, the laws are exactly
the important instruments and the means for the government. As the observation
ant the description from Foucault, the laws are the presentations of the
microcosmic power that based on the needs of the security and the governance of
the country. From the viewpoint of cultural policy, the laws are one of the
instruments that beneath the policies. That is the so-called “the policy-based
legislation viewpoint.” However, under the specific cultural policy, it shows
us how to achieve the policy purpose by the legislation of cultural laws.
Undertake historical times, the laws as the cultural symbols in
different periods, see through the evolution of the thoughts of cultural
governance and the transformation of cultural laws, and describes the
trajectory of both the formal and the substantial transformation of cultural
laws which responds to the evolution of the official thoughts on cultural
governance.
Keywords:
cultural governance, cultural laws, governmentality
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