A Research on the Politics/Administration Dichotomy: An Application of Q-Methodology on Taipei City Government's Legislative Liaison Officers

• Main Authors: Szu-yu Kuo, 郭思禹
• Other Authors: Don-yun Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88371337121382182493

碩士 === 世新大學 === 行政管理學研究所(含碩專班) === 93 === The politics/administration dichotomy is an important but controversial concept in the filed of public administration. Scholars have been debating it since the inauguration of the field by Woodrow Wilson. However, most literatures on this subject are at best verbal in nature and seldom is there discussing through empirical investigation. This research intends to break this mode by researching on the dichotomy from the viewpoints of Taipei City Government's legislative liaison officers. As the executive-legislative relation is highly related to the issue of the politics/administration dichotomy, it is an adequate to understand the dichotomy by exploring legislative liaison officers' belief system. For this reason, author adopted an inductive research technique called "Q-methodology" to explore the belief systems of 11 Taipei City Government's legislative liaison officers concerning their works. There are three major findings in this research. First, results show that these legislative liaison officers perceive two distinct attitudes. Author labeled the two factors: "agency-interest oriented administrator" and "professional-service-oriented administrator." Second, concerning managing the executive-legislative relation smoothly, there are four basic elements: trust-building, law-binding, professionalism, and following executive leadership. Finally, this research uncovers two important practical proverbs concerning the fusion of politics/administration for bureaucrats in political arena: "administrative professionalism is an important political asset," and "political connection is a convenient path of administrative operation."