Action Strategies of Environmental Groups in Taiwan: Policy Network Analysis

• Main Authors: Tai-Hong Lu, 呂泰宏
• Other Authors: Min-Hwang Liang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27836631400420279650

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 環境政策研究所 === 92 === In Taiwan, research trend inclined to interpret the rise of environmental and social movements through the viewpoints of both national state and civil society; however, few researches linked with the field of policy science. This research intended to look through the real situation to analyze the strategies adopted by the non-governmental organization of Taiwan during the process of policy making stage, and examined their impacts on the policy outcome after. Instead of adopting approaches of both state-centered and society-centered to study the power structure among parties involved, this research started from angle of policy activists, and went through the concept of policy network to analyze how the status of environmental groups inside the issue related policy network could affect their decision on choosing action strategies. By this approach, the researcher clarified the relationship between the condition of power structure and the chosen of strategies. This research is an empirical research and was conducted by methods of literature analysis, in-depth interview and a case study. The leaders of four environmental groups were interviewed. The case studied was related to a metro-park movement during the period from 1989 to 1992, conducted by the Wei-Wu-Ying Promoting Group, located at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. This research found that although under domination of the authority government during the eras of 1970-1990, the most difficulty time period of political and economical situation and the lack of mechanism of public articipation, the non-governmental groups of Taiwan still actively ran different movements base on their own social construct and resources mobilized. Most interviewees admitted that being limited by their resources, they had to exchange resources, set back and compromised with governments and other competitive groups to maintain a competitive-cooperation relationship during their action process. But they also learned well to pursue their interests and goals by playing games with other actor who had different stakes in such complicated network. The results validated the assumption that power structure relationship of activist could create various types of interaction and network channels, and furthered to affect the outcome of policy making. This research also summarized six frequent used strategies adopted by Taiwan’s environmental groups. These are institutional competition, issue formulation, strategy alliance, media advocate, information exchange, and supervise evaluation. The recommendations include modification of institutional design, and notices of lobbying. This research also suggests that further researches may be extended to national environmental conscious survey and to real policy network environmental movement cases.