The Study of Privatization of Social Welfare in Taipeithe Analysis of Practice and Constraint of Local Governance
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Ho, Wen-Sen
Abstract
The privatization of social welfare is the inevitable result of the reforms to improving the huge social welfare expense under the “welfare state” policies. In the 1970s’, the global economic crisis emerged; the governments of the countries were under pressure of the financial deficits. Most of the governments of the countries were forced to cut the welfare budgets. The role as the direct welfare provider of the government has faded away. In the 1980s’, under the influence of the liberal currents, the U.K. and U.S. governments proactively implemented the “reinventing government” and reformed the social welfare policies. Under the influences, the Government also followed the trends of the U.K. and U.S.. In 1985, the Department of Social Welfare of Taipei City Government contracted out the “Taipei Po-ai Children Development Center” to the First Children’s Development Center. This is the overture of the privatization system in Taiwan. With the abundant social welfare resources and the support of the leaders of Taipei City Government, the privatization cases have been grown fast. Dated to 2007, there have been 74 privatizations aiming to build up “win-win” cooperation between the government and private sectors and elevating the service qualities for the consumers of the social welfare. he study took the approach of local governance and focused on the cases of the social welfare privatization in Taipei City. By in-depth interview, reference the social welfare privatization case studies, the governance factors and the theories of the local governance, the study tried to indicate the problems which the privatized social institutes were facing, and the possible solutions to solve the mentioned problems. Hopefully, the study would provide some suggestions on the policies of the social welfare privatization for Taipei City Government.
Subjects
Privatization of social welfare
privatization
governance
local governance
governance factors
SDGs
Type
thesis
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