Struggling Balance in Policy Implementation: A Case Study on its Idea, Mechanism and Practice of the Sexual Harassment Prevention Act

• Main Authors: Tseng,Ying-chin, 曾孆瑾
• Other Authors: Ku, Yeun-wen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98244575713050947282

博士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 社會政策與社會工作學系 === 100 === The purpose of this study is to explore the impacts of the Sexual Harassment Prevention Act during its three stages of advocacy, planning and implementation, through understanding the points made by varied stakeholders of the Act like advocators, responsible officials in the central government and local authorities, members in the local Sexual Harassment Prevention Committee, and the Division of Protection for Women and Children in the Police Department. The hermeneutics of qualitative research is the basic methodology for this study. First of all, the researcher inspects the formation and legislation of the Act with essential policy elements, including ideas and values, and wider contexts for its implementation. Literature review and document analysis are applied to construct a contextual framework. To further understand the whole structure of mechanism in details, we then look into sexual harassment from different faces of guidance, education, grievance, mediation, prevention, and its accusing and punishment, with interviewing data from the stakeholders. There are two major findings of this study. First, it finds several problems in the implementing mechanism of the Act. For example, the Act’s practical objectives are not clear and measurable, leading to more disputes about the victims in the grievance system, no sufficient service capacity, no sufficient professional and responsible staff, and no sufficient financial budget. Second, two demands are highly expected by the stakeholders, a clear and recognizable definition of sexual harassment, on the one hand, and the importance of protection in the implementation of the Act, on the other. Finally, the researcher provides several policy suggestions about the improvement the Sexual Harassment Prevention Act in its future implementation.