Political Democratization and Taiwan’s Overseas Diasporic Policy Change:Case Study of Policies to the Diasporic Groups in the U.S.
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Huang, Cheng-Chieh
Abstract
The research method adopted by this article is qualitative method. Both constructivist and advocacy perspectives are employed to analyze the political implications of the overseas diasporic policies, and meanwhile to advocate new policies from the perspectives of Taiwan’s subjectivity. he analytical framework deals with three levels of analysis: international, domestic and political leaders. The framework is built up with a combination of “ policy paradigm approach” and “ polity centered analysis”. It tries to answer the following three questions from the perspective of Taiwan’s subjectivity: （1）What’s the overseas diasporic policy paradigm during the two Chiangs’ ruling? Did it make any changes during the Lee Teng-Hui and Chen Shui-Bian governments? What’s the direction? What’s the span of change? （2）What’s the social identity, political orientation and capacity of Taiwanese American groups? How did it shaped? How did it get changed in the process of Taiwan’s democratization? （3）What’s the impact caused by political democratization to overseas diasporic policy paradigm shift ? What’s the constraint? Why?fter examing the history of Taiwan’s overseas diasporic polcy, we find that the polcy paradigm still stays in the paradigm of “ Three Principals of the People”. Although the Lee Teng-Hui and Chen Shui-Bian governments strided towards democratization and Taiwanization, those just fall into the category of second order change. The paradigm does not shift to Taiwan’s subjectivity due to the core idea remains the same.esults of this research point out the deficiency of democratization in solving the problems of overseas diasporic policies and foreign polcies as well. Foreign polcies are different from domestic public policies. Statehood and national identity are the core issues in foreign policy field. The dilemma of overseas diasporic policy can not be figured out simply by promoting democratization. To establish the paradigm of Taiwan’s subjectivity is the only way to go.
Subjects
political democratization
policy change
policy paradigm approach
polity centered analysis
overseas diasporic policy
Type
thesis
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