The Political Economy of the Relocation Policy of the Taipei Flowers Wholesale Market

• Main Authors: Chao-Hua Wang, 汪昭華
• Other Authors: Chyuan-Jenq Shiau
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76346068575493587815

碩士 === 臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 98 === Establishment and building of flower wholesale of Taipei are related to selection of location of the base, modification of metropolitan plan, land development, construction regulations, transportation and environment impacts, outsourcing operation of public construction, market trading system and other aspects. Transportation and sales system of flower industry centers on wholesale market and carries out centralization, balancing and distribution of flower and other functions of transportation and sales. Flower wholesale market of Taipei lies in urban area of Taipei and is a wholesale market located in consumption place. Therefore, success of market operation is closely related to consumers and dealers. Decision-making process of public policies is usually related to diversified participants, which makes this process fairly complicated. It is really difficult to distinguish network participants. Various groups sometimes interact with each other. Thus it is sometimes difficult to explain causal relationship of policy output. Relocation policies of flower wholesale market involve authorities of central and local governments and members of civil society, such as flower dealers, flower growers, market operators, scholars, experts and the public. These different stakeholders sometimes interact with each other. For example, some flower dealers and flower growers are also members of operator organizations and therefore are interrelated among various groups. These diversified participants make decision-making process of policies intricate and it is also not easy to determine the casual relationship. This paper mainly aims at exploring casual relationship among related actors, analyzing policy activities and evaluating key policy issues according to historical structure transformation of flower wholesale market of Taipei and economic and political evolution. According to specific political and economic opinion differences among governmental departments, civil groups and organizations and systems which are implied in relocation policies of flower wholesale market in Taipei, this paper discuss changing factors of decision-making of policies and difficulty of implementing the policies, analyze the causal relationship implied by different understanding of countermeasures between the central government and the government of Taipei, resource and information interaction among the government of Taipei and various entities, cooperation and competition relationship between governmental departments and civil groups, etc.