| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 公共行政暨政策學系 === 105 === Previous research has focused on the entry and exit of political appointees and their duration in Western Countries. Responding to the lack of empirical research on the recruitment and resignation of the ministers and on the ministerial tenure in Taiwan, one of the aims in this study is to analyze the personal characteristics and social backgrounds of the ministers in the Executive Yuan, another aim is to survey the resignation reasons of the ministers and the positions former ministers get right after leaving office, and the other aim is to examine how long ministers are able to remain in cabinet positions and which factors determine their tenure. In all, this study empirically analyzes the mobility of the ministers in Taiwan Executive Yuan from 1988 to 2016.
The empirical findings are as follows. First, in respect of the characteristics and backgrounds of the ministers, majority of those are male, average 55 years of age, highly educated, and more than sixty percent of the ministers have had work experiences in the central government. Second, we find that over eighty percent of ministers resigned involuntarily because of cabinet reshuffles, changes of ruling party and so on. Moreover, lots of ministers are appointed again in the subsequent cabinet after their resignations. Third, we find that the average tenure of a minister is 27.2 months, namely 2.3 years, and the standard deviation of tenure is 17.2 months, which means that the discrepancy among ministers’ tenure is considerably wide. In addition, we find some factors significantly affecting the tenure of ministers in the Executive Yuan by using both the OLS models and the Cox Proportional Hazard Models.
Based on these empirical findings of the analysis, there are some policy implications that we would extensively discuss, such as the gender representation, the political transaction costs resulting from short tenure of political appointees, and how the government can make good use of these ministers, just like public assets, after their resignations.
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