The Relationships between Political Elties and Failure of Rule-by-Law -- An Analysis on Local Elected Elites in Taiwan
Resource
政治科學論叢, 4, 131-148
Journal
政治科學論叢
Journal Issue
4
Pages
131-148
Date Issued
1992-12
Date
1992-12
Author(s)
Chao, Y.M.
Abstract
Social elites always play the leading and influential role on social value and people’s behavior. Political elites, eventually, play a guilding and examplary actor profoundly on peoples’ democratic value and legal behavior as well. Therefore, an examination on the relationships between political elites’ democratic-legal cognition and their privilege action, also, examining the impact factors on the illegal privilege action to those politicians, are both very useful to push a country to be ruled by law. This paper intends to analyze the relationships between the cognition structure of rule-by-law and the illegal privilege action on the elected grass-root politicians in Taiwan. These illegal privilege acts which had been done by some local elected politicians, include the extortion and solicitation on personnel, construction cases, purchases and the monopoly or protection of special reciprocal benefits. These acts are seriously damage the neutrality of administration, weakening the prestige of government, harming the law justice, hurting to the dignity of law and encouraging the risks which against the law. These phenomena should block the way for the construction of a rule-by-law society. I believe that such a study will do some contribution to understand that how elected politicians’ privilege behaviors influence the construction of a rule-by-law society. Certainly, it will also be helpful to understand the difficulties to the realization of a rule-by-law local society in the developing countries.
Type
journal article