The Study of Community Care Sites Program Implementation in Taipei City and County Governments and Their Governance Patterns
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Lu, Chun-Wei
Abstract
The thesis attempts to discuss the interactive relationship between the public sector and the third sector in Taipei City and County Government within Minister of the Interior’s “Community Care Sites Program” through the governance study approach. There are four purposes of the thesis. The first purpose is to understand the administrative procedures inside “Community Care Sites Program”, such as its purposes, goals, procedures, subsidies, applicants’ commitment, and audit process etc. The second purpose is to understand program implementation process and to examine applications from the third sector in Taipei City and County Governments. The third purpose is to understand the third sector operating community care sites by their motivations, routine operations, and suggestions for local government’s guidance and assistance. Finally, the most important purpose is to figure out the optimal governance patterns of community care for senior citizen in Taiwan. The thesis classifies community care for senior citizen as home rule affair, i.e. local governments are under obligation to service the aged according to senior citizen welfare law. In addition to senior citizen welfare law, there are programs as policy incentives formulated by central government for local governments. However, local governments have the power to decide what to do within the limit of home rule affair authority. The governance patterns of central government for home rule affair is not the same with autonomous affairs. Central government subsidizes local governments and the third sector as the most efficient policy instrument. The other policy instruments are the manual of operating community care sites, providing internet access to online manual of operating community care sites, and making a national circuit of learning from each other’s work. To sum up, these policy instruments stimulate local governments cooperating with central government. There are three characters of local government, especially for Taipei City and County Government. First, local governments have to take shape the concrete service of community care sites. Second, local government is the key unit for examining the third sector’s applicants. Third, the character of evaluating community care sites by local government is guiding and assisting more than auditing.inally, the thesis figures out the optimal governance patterns of community care for senior citizen in Taiwan in three aspects of modern governance patterns, such as public participation, incentives, and policy network.
Subjects
The Aged
Senior Citizen Welfare Law
Home Rule Affairs
Autonomous Affairs
Local Government
Third Sector
Governance Patterns
Community Care
SDGs
Type
thesis
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