The Political Elite of the Democratic Progressive Party:Analyzing the Structure of the Central Standing Committee（1986-2004）

• Main Authors: Chih-Chung Lee, 李誌中
• Other Authors: Tsong-Jyi Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85519664657818844518

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 公共行政學系公共政策碩士班 === 92 === This thesis studies the Central Standing Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party. It explores the elite structure and development process of DPP’s Central Standing Committee from 1986 to 2004 in aspect of social background, recruitment elements and the transformation pattern. By reviewing the literature, there are three major research questions: First of all, what kind of social background did the DPP’s Central Standing Committees have? What was the percentage of variables? Secondly, faction influence and public employment experience (members of Congress and executives) are usually considered important for recruitment of DPP’s Central Standing Committee. Is it correct in reality? Why were the elites selected? Did recruitment of DPP’s Central Standing Committee consist with these elements? In addition, how did factions and public employment experience evolve in DPP? Thirdly, have the DPP’s Central Standing Committee ever occurred elite transformation? If it has, how did it transfer? Author collected information about social background and public employment experience of the elites and categorized them as a database to analyze above research questions by both quality and quantification ways. There are there major findings of this study: First, on the dimension of social background, results of the analysis indicated that: Male is 87.7% and female is 12.3%. Age of 40-49 years old is at most (35.1%). About ethnic groups, Hoklo is the majority (90.4%) and Hakka is in the next place (7%). Most of them are bachelor (44.7%), and major in Law (31.6%) or Politics and Administration (23.7%). Besides, the greater part elites who studied abroad graduated from America (17.5%). Second, about the analysis of recruitment, the generality of committee members have background of faction and public employment experience (83.3% and 73.7%). On the other hand, this research studies and explains in depth why some people who didn’t have these advantages can get power. At the same time, the history of DPP is also classified different periods according to the development of these two recruitment elements. Finally, author discusses elite transformation from three directions. On generation transformation dimension, average age of the elites in DPP is 48.2% and change ratio is 64.9%. Moreover, author finds most of them have Law or Politics specialty, but there isn’t technocratic trend in DPP. In the end, before DPP got power, it used separation model of ruling party and government. After it became the ruling party, it used fusion model of ruling party and government gradually. Nowadays, DPP starts to combine the two parts formally.