The Accountability of Local Governance－ A Case Study of Textbook Co-Selection Policy on Taipei City, Taipei County and Keelung County Area

“Local Government Act” and “Educational Fundamental Act” had been sign in 1999, widen the discretion and power of the mayors and their city-hall cabinets on local education affairs. Ideally, with these powers, local governments could design their own educational policies much more fitted in local features.
The textbook co-selection polity on Taipei City, Taipei County and Keelung County is a across-boundary governance case, and it also is a local education governance case. In this local policy governance case, it involved in the rights of people’s education rights issues, such as the right of the parents school-chosen and the autonomy of the teaching. The theme of this mater thesis is the accountability issues about local governance, especially on the accountability environment matter. In this thesis, first of all, the policy network theory is the main analyzing tool used to find out what kind of networks it is. After finding out the feature of the network, the second thing to be done is inspecting the public accountability on hierarchal, law, professional, political and social accountability aspects. After the analysis and inspection, there are some policy suggestions about improving the weaknesses of the governance network.
At the end of this thesis, there are three suggestions: the first, the local education review boards should be workable to enhance professional evaluation on local education decision-making. Secondly, the across-boundary cooperation should be authorized by the law and the local Assembly. Third, expanding citizen participation approaches by increasing the using of deliberative democracy.