A Case Study on the Relationship between Public Opinion and the Policy-Making Process of Kuan-Du Park in Taipei

• Main Authors: Chiang, Hsu Cheng, 江旭正
• Other Authors: Zheng, Chinlong
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23670177188161050183

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 森林學研究所 === 89 === This thesis was to study the process of policy-making for setting the Kuan-Du Nature Park in Taipei. The concept of Incrementalism that “the democratic politics possess certain intelligence-enhancing processes and strategies” enlightened the study. To investigate the implication of policy and its relationship with the society of the study case, the related texts of newspapers were analyzed by content analysis. There were two types of information related to agenda building in the study, one was policy-oriented and the other was resource-oriented. The information generated from political process was a driving force for setting public policy. The study discussed the policy process of this case and its embeddedness of social structure from three aspects: relationship between the information and the power, relationship among policy-clients and communication of policy. This thesis had three conclusions. Firstly, the information channel was decentralized significantly and was used more efficiently after 1994, the election year of Taipei mayor. Persuasion and communication, the effective strategies of conditioned power in current societies, were the important logic in policy-making process in the future. Secondly, through policy-oriented and resource-oriented issues, various demands of policy-clients reflected the value and the fact of information in their mind. Client-oriented decision model finally became the common language of governmental agencies, non-governmental and foreign organizations. Thirdly, the information generated from the process would accelerate the learning effect of usable knowledge if public policy had been based on interaction in the democratic system. The interactive model of political communication was the best communication skill among client groups and by that could enrich the values of nature resources policy. Keywords: Incrementalism, policy communication, content analysis, nature resource policy, nature conservation, Kuan-Du.