| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 公共行政學系 === 106 === The development of participatory budgeting is one of the strategies for participatory democracy used in many major cities around the world. In recent years, it has been increasingly promoted among local governments in Taiwan. The promotion model of the Taipei City Government is based on 12 district offices. Thus, street-level bureaucrats have become central to the implementation and communication of policy operations. This study supplements the existing implementation model, through an in-depth discussion, from the perspectives of street-level bureaucrats, on disposition and response strategies, with an aim to reinforce the planning and design process of government policies.
In order to identify the influence of the implementers on the policy process, the researcher participated in participatory budgeting as a member of the participatory implementation partner university. The researcher also obtained the dispositions, dilemmas, cause of problem, and response strategies of street-level bureaucrats through in-depth interviews. Observation and secondary data analysis methods were also employed to reconstruct the role and interaction of street-level bureaucrats within the process of participatory budgeting. Finally, the applicability of participatory budgeting in Edward III’s Public Policy Implementation Model is explored.
Results revealed that the implementation disposition of street-level bureaucrats does not directly affect the choice of response strategies. However, strategies are limited by factors such as environment and resources. It is also affected by other factors to varying degrees, with these indirectly forming the response strategy. The study also found that organizational structure, civic literacy, supervisor intentions, and inter-department communications are all important factors affecting the choice of response strategies. In practice, future participatory budgeting implementation efforts should focus on increasing the active involvement of the citizenry. Means of achieving higher involvement should be to effectively increase awareness on and increase civic education for participatory budgeting. To elevate execution efforts, street-level implementers can also be motivated through participatory budgeting methods. In the long run, a multi-phased goal, tailored to local conditions to gradually realize the policy vision of participatory budgeting, should be set.
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