Investigating the 2006 Anti-corruption Movement

• Main Authors: Cheng-Yu Lin, 林承佑
• Other Authors: 林聰吉
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43219881665325494012

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 公共行政學系公共政策碩士班 === 98 === In 2006, corruption scandals exploded one after another in the Chen Shui-bian administration centered on his subordinates, father of his son-in-law, first lady, his son-in-law, and even the President himself. A series of scandals put the public into shock and disappointment which swiftly evolved a sense of dissatisfaction at the government in society. Therefore, Shih Ming-te’s advocating aroused astounding echo in society and created an unprecedented scene throughout the history of Taiwan’s social movement. Taking the anti-corruption movement in 2006 as example, this study aims to analyze secondary data based on the perspective of social movement. There are two main research questions in this study: (1) what is the opportunity for launching anti-corruption movement; (2) what kind of power emerges in the organization of anti-corruption movement. The paper is organized as follows: Chapter One sets out the introduction describing research motive and objective. Chapter Two reviews the theories related to social movement. Chapter Three looks into opportunity factors. Chapter Four discusses organizational factors. Finally, the conclusion is made in Chapter Five. The finding shows: (1) opportunity factor: the formation of anti-corruption movement might be originated from the disorder of government performance, successive explosion of scandals and influence of political system; (2) organizational factor: in addition to continuing traditional fashion, intellectuals－accounting for most members in this movement－designed new tactics to keep the operation of anti-corruption movement. However, this kind of member composition also underlay some later arguments about anti-corruption movement; (3) the mass who determined to join anti-corruption movement were significantly influenced by their party identification. In sum, many phenomena appeared in anti-corruption movement have been different from those taking place in Taiwan before. Examples ranged from special appeal, mobilization to carnival-like activities. Therefore, it is worthwhile to keep observing and researching whether these particular phenomena in anti-corruption movement will someday emerge in Taiwan again.