Studies on Budgeting Deliberation Institution of Taichung City Council

• Main Authors: huang-juang huang, 洪鴻壤
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27527851416188381247

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 公共政策所 === 93 === Studies on Budgeting Deliberation Institution of Taichung City Council Student：Huang Huang Juang Advisor: Chin-Cheng Yang. Feng Chia University Graduate Institute of Public Policy Thesis Abstract The budget projects and its implementations of local governments are decisive about development and prosperity of cities. It also relates to public welfare closely; consequently, it is very important for councilors to deliberate budgets and to avoid increasing public burdens. That triggers research motivation of this thesis. It will analyze factors which influence the process of budget deliberation in a city council, and discuss how to resolve the existing problems of budget deliberation. Moreover, this article would also offer responsive suggestions for reforming budgeting deliberation system in local levels. Based on neo-institutionalism, this article will analyze the process of budgeting deliberation in Taichung city council from the viewpoints of regulation, the interaction between major agents, of professional information, and the standpoint of political organizations and external factors, and finally tries to find the confronting difficulties at the present time. This thesis takes literature discussion, interview, survey research and participation with observation as research methods. Through the methods, this article can analytically look out the factors which affects the political process and be able to propose some resolutions to prevent government over-payout and distribute national resources reasonably and efficiently. In sum, there are seven pointed drawbacks as follow: (1) the problems of budget deliberation system and rules (2) mal-functions between government and council, (3) incorrect interactions among conciliators(4) lack of professional knowledge and information, (5) negotiation of political parties(6) organizations taking over-concern on their private interests, (7) bad influence of media. Accordingly, eight proposals for correcting the mentioned drawbacks are: (1) to improve the rules of budget deliberation (2) to enhance the connection with auditing body (3)to conduct the lecture of professional knowledge (4)to set up unique consultative institution for counselors, (5) to make the governmental budget presentation to the public (6) to promote the negotiator regulation of political parties, (7) to use public opinion properly, (8) to strengthen ability of budget projection deliberation.