| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 運動休閒與餐旅管理研究所 === 104 === In 2010, the Sports Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan budgeted 2 billion and 25 million NT dollars for the ‘Baseball Reinvigoration Plan’, which turned a new page of Taiwan’s baseball policy. The ‘Baseball Reinvigoration Plan’ originated from a series of events. In 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2009 World Baseball Classic (WBC) qualification round, Chinese Taipei lost to China for the first and the second time ever, which were intolerable for people in Taiwan. To make matters worse, the involvement of professional baseball players in gambling scandals, the so-called ‘Black T-Rex Scandals’ and ‘Black Elephant Scandals’, had challenged the development of baseball in Taiwan. In response to the intolerable failures in international games and the scandals of professional league, baseball fans in Taiwan hit the streets and protested against the government in November, 2009, urging the authority to solve the problems occurred in Taiwan’s baseball development. As responses, President Ying-Jeou Ma held the ‘National Affairs Conference on Baseball’ and ordered the Executive Yuan to form an ad hoc group with the SAC in charge. The ‘Baseball Reinvigoration Plan’ was made together by both public sectors and non-governmental organizations. The involved public sectors included the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Finance. The non-governmental organizations included the Chinese Professional Baseball League, the four professional baseball teams, the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association, the Taiwan Professional Baseball Players Association, experts, and representatives of baseball fans. This study aims at investigating the interaction among the policy community in the policymaking process with the approach of policy community by Rhodes (2007) and the policy decision mode by Zhao (2011). Semi-structured interviews and content analysis were undertaken to collect research data. The findings of this research are as follows. First, the members of the policymaking community of the Baseball Reinvigoration Plan was firstly nominated by the Sports Affairs Council, and then recognized by the President and the Vice Premier of the Executive Yuan. The qualification for entering the policy community was thus limited. Second, there were frequent interactions among members of the policy community. Meetings were called regularly, and sometimes they also had unofficial meetings. Besides, the resources of different members’ in the policy community were exchanged with one another. As for the exercise of power, the Executive Yuan had the decision power over policy. The members in the policy community might have the right to speak in the meetings, but the Executive Yuan had the last word on the resolutions. Therefore, during the policymaking process, direct orders and unilateral persuasion were more frequently seen than mutual negotiations.
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