| Summary: | 博士 === 中國文化大學 === 政治學研究所 === 96 === This dissertation tries to construct a theoretical framework from the basis of trust to the establishment of social capital. Then the study expects to examine the polcy network through the mechanism of interactive cor-relation between trust and social capital. A case study on Taiwan and Mainland China follows to review and compare the performance of polit-ical and economic policy network in order to find out the interactions of trust and social capital in policy functions. Survey data from East Asia Barometer (EAB) is used to verify the relations to be studied.
The findings read as follows: (1) The check and balance institution of distrust and people trust take place in the democratic environment si-multaneously, but social capital works vis-à-vis with trust keeping the policy network working; (2) Trust is a ration, a culture, and a simplistic mechanism, making human collective acts meaningful; (3) Social capital is able to be formed from multi-associations of variosu resources leading to the foundation of policy network; (4) By comparative analysis of political and economic networks, Taiwan has much higher standard of per-formance of governance on the use of social capital with a link to trust, while Mainland Chana remains considerably lower; (5) Social capital is one of policy resources assisting the public policy network working, while both Taiwan and Mainland China jointly lack such resources; (6) Taiwan is dividing from Mainland China, although China is the biggest partner with Taiwan in trade; (7) Its a paradox that political conflicts of Taiwan-China are more bust and trade is more boom; (8) Taiwan-China interaction must build policy networks of issues.
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