On the Organizational Reform of Ethics Office

• Main Authors: Chun-li Wu, 吳春麗
• Other Authors: Ching-peng Peng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86158052057631626685

碩士 === 臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 95 === Ethics offices have been established since 1992 in Taiwan. However, surveys showed that ethics offices didn''t do their jobs well. The reasons that ethics offices didn''t perform well include several factors. First, their hierarchical ranking, a branch of Ministry of Justice, is not high enough to monitor behaviors of higher ranking officials. Second, the inadequate organizational structure forces their employees to do the tough job of whistleblower on a daily basis. Third, the inadequate human resources of ethics offices prevent them from taking proper anti-corruption measures. Ethics offices are now also facing external pressures that call for reorganization. They include: the UN Convention calls for the establishing of preventive anti-corruption body, significant achievements of HK and Singaporean anti-corruption organizations, the public expectation of clean governance, and the proposal to set up new anti-corruption agency. This thesis proposes the following reform principles for the ethics offices: ethics offices should be placed among reasonable chain of command; ethics offices should be placed above the monitored organization, and ethics offices should belong to a highest constitutional supervising organization.