The Political Economy on Property Declaration by Public Servants
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Chiu, Ruey-Chih
Abstract
Various international rankings have shown that political corruption is positively correlated with national competitiveness. In order to prevent public servants from corruptions and unlawful gains, many countries in the world have gradually adapted the system of property declaration by public servants as a mechanism for promoting government transparent and restraining overdevelopment of money politics.
The "Act on Property-Declaration by Public Servants" is the first enacted Sunshine Law in Taiwan. It is also one of the most important Sunshine Laws in our country. However, after 17 years of harsh implementation, the Act can’t work like its original legislative purpose for promoting government ethics. The events of corruption and dereliction are still happen frequently. We are far away from a decent clean government. It is the considerable theme on this study.
The research method of this study was historical review of political economy by introducing the background of "Act on Property-Declaration by Public Servants" to understand the cause and effect of the Act, as well as its content. This study provides concrete suggestions for the reference of revising and further research on "Act on Property-Declaration by Public Servants", by analyzing the gain and loss between different parties and stake holders of the legislative formation of the Act, the mobilization of bias of various related people, the disputation of the Act, the achievement and setbacks after the Control Yuan’s 17 years implementation of the Act.
This study proposes the following recommendations to resolve problems of current system of property declaration by public servants: (1) extend property reporters by including first-grade relatives; (2) establish an independent anti-corruption system; (3) promote the awareness of anti-corruption in society; (4) reinforce the ethic education of public servants and propagate the declaration system; (5) remove the differences of penalty standards among different official levels; (6) set up nationwide personal property inquiries and online declaration system; (7) implement property crimes of unknown origin ; and (8) construct comprehensive Sunshine Laws to establish complete monitoring mechanism.
Subjects
Property-Declaration System by Public Servants
Sunshine Law
Public Administrative Ethics
Political Economy
Mobilization of Bias
SDGs
Type
thesis
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