Local Governance and Hot Spring Industry Policy Network – A Case Study of Hot Spring Industry Policy in Jiaosi
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Yu, Tzu-Yi
Abstract
There are plentiful hot springs everywhere in Taiwan, and local government will fully use the resource to improve the local economic development and tourism development; hence, the development of hot spring industry becomes the important issue to the local governments in Taiwan. However, it is impossible to complete hot spring industry which only depends upon local government. It still takes multiple actors, such as citizens, entrepreneurs, to take part in the policy process, so that the complementation the hot spring industry would be made. For that reason, the coordination mechanism would be necessary. The mobilization capacity of resources form actors is also crucial. The planning of hot spring industry also should conform to public’s expectation.
This article reviews the local governance theory and Rhodes’s policy network theory; furthermore, taking two examples in Taiwan, which are Wu-Lai hot spring area and Tai-an hot spring area, to examine the hot spring industry’s policy network in Jiaosi, in the meanwhile by interviewing the related multiple actors in Jiaosi, trying to understand the mobilization capacity and interactions between these actors. Finally, according to the results of interviews, this article establishes the model of governance of hot spring industry in Jiaosi. In the end, this thesis reaches some conclusions: 1.There is highly integration of multiple actors of hot spring industry’s policy network in Jiaosi. However, only entrepreneurs and the local government cooperate closely, the nonprofit actors are excluded. Also, most of the time the development in Jiaosi hot spring area is more concerning with the commerce, not sustainable development.
2. The unified public forum or mechanism about the development of hot spring industry in Jiaosi should be established, so that multiple actors could easily follow or take care of the issue through it.
3. The governance structure of hot spring industry in Jiaosi is multi-level governance structures, even nowadays the local government still dominates the whole system, but the community and citizens will be the key roles in the future.
Subjects
local governance
policy network
hot spring industry
Jiaosi
Type
thesis
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
ntu-100-R97322046-1.pdf
Size
23.54 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):94b26bf863c74746cec8a4dd10df4198