Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Reforms
Reforms
BLUE TEAM
Why?
Dynamics of policy implementation
Multi-dimensional policies and institutions
Interplay between policy and institutions/reciprocal effects
Framework for analysis
The degree of asymmetry between the public policy goals and the
organizational capacity of local institutions
Policy implementation as the main consideration within the “policy context”
Local government: Devolution and retreat
The evolution of district councils, 1966-1970
Faith in the center, 1970-1976
Stalled attempts at local government perform, 1977-present
Organizational capacity at the local level
Central government, unwilling to increase the capacity of local government
The affective dimension of local government
The Mouse that Roared: Taiwan’s Management of
Trade Relations with the United States (Chan 1987)
Main focus:
How dependent country like Taiwan has faced conditions
of basic asymmetry in international relations?
How we can understand the trade relationship and
predict the future?
How small and dependent economies have tried to lessen
or evade the full impact of U.S. protectionist pressures?
The Mouse that Roared: Taiwan’s Management of Trade
Relations with the United States (Continued)
Miewald
Picard and /
Fuller/ Garrity/ Barzelay
Savas Nelson
Marini
(Minnowbrook
Arnold Perspective)
and
White Klitgaard
Morgan
Picard and
Turner Morgan
Wallis and
Hulme
Privatization
Savas: “the key to better government”
Alarmed by growth in government
Governance
World Bank Policy and NGOs: World bank has expanded collaboration
with private agencies and grassroots groups in projects (Nelson 1995).
NGOs tendencies to process-oriented programming contradicts the
interests of World Bank (Nelson 1995).
Beyond the market, beyond the state (Turner and Hulme 1997, 200)
the rise of non-governmental organizations