The Study Of The Administrative Governance of Hsinchu County(1989-2009) ─From The View Point Of “Unified Government” And “Divided Government”
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Chang, Pi-Chin
Abstract
In 1989, the non-KMT party was in power in Hsinchu County government for the first time. During the 20 years period after that, both KMT and DPP parties were alternatively taking the ruling power, so-called “party alternation” phenomena. To the government of Hsinchu County, which had been ruled by KMT for the longest time, the emerging and impact of a “divided government” is a topic that is worthwhile to study. This paper intends to observe and study the influence to the administrative governance of Hsinchu County government due to this phenomena, from the view point of “unified government” and “divided government”.
Since the end of martial law in 1987, in the County Magistrate and City Mayor election in 1989, Hsinchu government was one of the divided governments along with Taipei County, Yilan County, Changhua County, Kaohsiung County and Pintong County. Ever since, DPP has been in power in Hsinchu County for a period of 12 years. Hsinchu County is mainly a Hakka election district, it was considered to be very conservative in the past. Why the “divided government” was emerged, is the origin of the study in this paper.
The historical fact was that prior to 1989, KMT party was the only ruling party of local governments in Taiwan. However, in the election of local government leaders in 1989, the “divided” status of “County Government” and “County Council” of Hsinchu County and other five counties was occurred at the same time. It was a situation to be concerned, if we simply describe it as a “democratic trend”, it will be too rough. Because this status was emerged only in six counties and cities in 23 counties and cities in Taiwan back at that time. In other words, “democratic trend” is not sufficient to explain the emerging of this phenomena. Furthermore, 12 years later, Hsinchu County was returned to the power of KMT party, a “unified government” again. The process of turning around and change is a topic that is worthwhile to be studied and discussed.
This paper explored the entanglement of local political factions in Hsinchu County, and analyzed the defensive and offensive tactics adopted in the county magistrate election since 1989, as well as the political atmosphere. It generally explained the relationship between the political views of candidates and the voting orientation of electors. Based on that, this paper analyzed the cause of the emerging of “unified” or “divided” local government.
In addition, this paper discovered that regardless of the emerging of “unified” or “divided” relationship between the government and the council in Hsinchu County, it does not have any obvious impact to the administrative governance of the Magistrate. In addition, the support from the councilors of Hsinchu County Council to the administrative governance is still strong regardless of the political party that the Magistrate belong to. The interesting thing is that the political view of “senior citizen allowance” is still an important issue to the election of magistrate since 1993.
Subjects
分立政府
一致政府
新竹縣長選舉
敬老津貼
政黨輪替
客家選區
SDGs
Type
thesis
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