臺灣客家與原住民族政策之下的制度安排與族群互動-基層代表性官僚影響母語復振政策績效觀感之研究：我國客家族群與原住民族的個案分析(1/2)

The basic concept of contemporary representative bureaucracy involves attempting to expand the diversity of demographic characteristics of civil servants. The policy performance of the bureaucratic system can be enhanced, while the legitimacy of representative government-based democratic politics can be in turn strengthened. According to the contemporary representative bureaucracy theory, passive representation, active representation, and symbolic representation in administrative agencies that reflect the demographic characteristics of civil servants will affect the policy performance through the realization of specific democratic values. This project will be carried out for a period of three years. The empirical research method with qualitative research as the main body was adopted, including literature review, theoretical research, and participatory observation, etc. In-depth interviews were conducted on policy stakeholders engaging native language revitalization of Hakka ethnic group and indigenous peoples in Taoyuan City, Pingtung County, Yunlin County, and Yilan County. The research goal is to research the effects of street-level representative bureaucracy of Hakka ethnic group and indigenous peoples on the performance perceptions of stakeholders towards the Hakka language revitalization policy and the indigenous peoples language development policy. A systematic reference is also made to form their governance modes of street-level bureaucrats, private firms, and local stakeholders in order to explore the implications of policy performance of democratic governance. Specifically, this project will employ contextual factors including administrative discretion, salience of identity, individuals/organizations, and organizational socialization, to analyze the relationship between street-level representative bureaucracy and policy performance of local administrative agency. In this project, the policy stakeholders were targeted to investigate their perceptions toward the civil servants’ democratic values during the process of the public sector’s implementation of native language revitalization policies. These perceptions include equality, participation, reasonability, transparency, due process, and integrity etc. to improve theory-building, institutional design and policy suggestions for democratic governance in Taiwan.