The Democratic Value Orientation of Local Elites
Resource
政治科學論叢, 6, 073-108
Journal
政治科學論叢
Journal Issue
6
Pages
073-108
Date Issued
1995-05
Date
1995-05
Author(s)
Chao, Y.M.
Abstract
1.The orientation of democratic value (1) Generally speaking, the local Taiwanese elites have stronger willingness and acknowledge to participate politics; however, the folks in Taiwan do not have as well participative capability of public affairs and decision-making as the elites do. (2) The local Taiwanese elites strongly support and agree the minorities' right for existence. Their democratic character or anti-authority, anti-privilege character are apparent, too. (3) From the perspective of decentralization, most of the local Taiwanese elites consent to balance the interest between the state and the local. They do not agree to sacrifice the local interest for the state's goal achievement. But, generally, the local Taiwanese elites' decentralization orientation is not very strong. (4) From the examination of vote-decision value, the local Taiwanese elites do have the idea of the right for minority and the right for majority. They strongly prefer majority-vote decision and have the democratic value of the minority obeying the majority. 2.The relation between the personal background and the orientation of democratic value (1) The fact of age does not have explicit affection on the local Taiwanese elites' orientation of political participation, equity, decentralization, and majority-decision. (2) Political party factor do explicitly affect the local Taiwanese elites' orientation of equity, decentralization and majority-decision, except the orientation of participation. (3) The fact of provincial origins does not explicitly influence on the local Taiwanese elites' orientation of democratic value. (4) The facts of sex, education, and provincial origins do not have explicit influence on the orientation of democratic value, neither. Comparing with the research on local elites in the Taiwan Province which had done in 1986, the fact of sex in 1986 did explicitly affect their orientation of decentralization and equity. After several years' democratization, urbanization and universalization of information communication, the facts of sex, education, and provincial origins have less affection on the democratic value.
Type
journal article