The evaluation of Taiwanese people about the quality of Democratic Governance--Analysis of Materials and Date obtained from Taiwan’s Election and Democratization Study, 2003

• Main Authors: Jiang-wei Chen, 江維真
• Other Authors: Chen-wen Chun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50445252685682901074

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 政治學研究所 === 93 === By end of 20th Century, democratization has become a major global phenomenon. In Taiwan, since Democratic Progress Party registered as lawful political party till the period it seized power, serial political democratization had attracted the eyes of the world. Through the 3rd wave of democratization which pushed Taiwan into a democratic country, democratic governance has become the key engineering work for concreting democracy. In Taiwan, though authoritative ruling had been ended and the decision mode of party leading government and administrative superior were collapsed, but there are all kinds of difficult problems in governance emerged, including the boycotting and the confrontation and antagonism between the Executive Yuan and Legislative Yuan, the interactive relationship between elected administrator and bureaucratic system and the disorder in the decision making system in administrative system, malpractice and corruption of government employees, recession of economy and unemployment rate maintaining high together lead to conflict between ethnic groups, corruption and social disorder and moral downgrading, despite the people is nominally the master of the country, and the confusion, disorder and unrest plus the uncertainty toward the future has brought up the core of problem, which is the governing structure under democratic political system need be established and concreted as soon as possible. This paper utilize the material and date obtained in interviews under “ Taiwan’s Election and Democratization Study, 2003 (TEDS 2003)”. It attempts to study the differences in evaluation of democracy, participation in democracy and democratic value as generated from the individual background factors as well as their evaluation of the current democratic governance. It is hope to draw practical suggestion of democratic governance which would serve as a lead for breaking of present difficult situation of Taiwan.