The Analysis of the Educational Bureaucrats'' Discretional Behavior in Local Government.

• Main Authors: Hsiao, Fang-ua, 蕭芳華
• Other Authors: Wu, Ching-Ji
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91491430599278688366

博士 === 國立臺北大學 === 公共行政暨政策學系 === 89 === 　The way the policy implemented affects the result of policy and the discretional behavior affect the policy effectiveness. The purpose of the thesis is to analyze the discretional behavior of the educational bureaucracy in local government. The method adopted is reviewing two local governments'' policy implementation of the "The plan of Central government grants for the construction of local nine-year compulsory education schools", to prove what we have hypothesized. 　The ambition of this study tries to construct the role and characteristic of the behavioral discretion in the field of policy implementation studies. The content was divided into six parts. In the 1st chapter, the research plan and conception definitions were presented. After the literature review, in Second and Third chapters the researcher established the hypothesis that bureaucrat''s discretional behavior adapted the policy, that bureaucrat implemented basing on his way of purpose recognition, and that a structure for analyzing discretion space was constructed for application. In Chapter Four, there was the reconstruction of the two local governments'' implementation of the Plan. Chapter Five explains the research design and discusses what have been found through the data got form the deep interview. 　In Chapter Six comes the conclusion of the study. 　　　1.The local education bureaucrats'' discretional behavior did adapt the policy, and play a key role within the procedure of policy implementation. 　　　2. Besides the policy content factors, the main directing forces in local context are also the key factors affecting the discretional behavior. The factors of policy contents include the implementing method planned, the accountability required, and the rule enforcement. How these factors perceived by the bureaucrat decides his space to behavior discreetly. Especially, the mayor was the main directing force in local context, and his power did limit or support the scope of bureaucrats'' discretion. 　　　3.The main criteria that the bureaucrat set for his own discretional behavior are "flexibility" and "appropriateness". Educational profession and local loyalty are the secondary ones. 　　　4.The positive characteristics of the bureaucrat should have some good effect on his eagerness to exercise the discretion authority. It depends whether he has owned the political capability, non-materialization, and interactive subjective way of thinking. 　The content of "The plan of Central government grants for the construction of local nine-year compulsory education schools" was clear. It offered marvelous resources. The policy designed that local government had the discretion power to objective choices and priority setting, which turn out that the discretion space had been greatly enlarged. The bureaucrat''s perception of policy design quality and enforcement did affect his intention to discreet. The closer the resources of accountability, the greater power it affects.