A Study on Factors Influencing Budget Distribution of Flood Treatment Plan of Flood Vulnerable Area in Taiwan: Analysis for Phase 1 Implementation Plan
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Liao, Yu-Lin
Abstract
The distributive theory explores the distributing process as well as result of policy benefits and asserts that, driven by the motive of winning the next election, legislators will ask administrative counterparts for policy benefits to be allocated to their electoral district by all possible means in their curret service term. And in order to solicitate the budget growth and final approval, inbumbent administration will in most cases agree to legislators’ demand. Given the high frequency of election in Taiwan, the aforementioned issue is worth to disscuss to see whether distributive theory could explain the interaction between legislators and administration. To empirically testing the distribution theory, this study examines the factors influencing policy benefits distribution by investigating the county as well as city level grants allocation of phase1 implementation plan of flood treatment plan of flood vulerable area in Taiwan.
The major findings of the study are as follows:
1. The factors influencing policy benefits distribution at county and city level changes as the definition of policy benefits varies.
2. Objective measures of demand factors, such as demand and urgency for flood treatment play a pivotal role in the process of policy benefits distribution.
3. Whether a legislator has the identity of being a member or chair in committee related to the budget and affairs in Ministry of Economic Affairs has effects on policy benefits distribution.
4. Competition level in legislators’ electoral district, the frequency of legislators’ interrogation, and the frequency of committee’s inspection to review the budget and implementation moderate the causal relationship of policy benefit distribution.
Subjects
distributive policy
distributive theory
flood treatment
legislators
grant
Type
thesis
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