| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 100 === Taiwanese government has put greater emphasis on developing renewable energy in recent years in the context of the fossil fuel shortage and carbon dioxide emissions. Issue networks, which differ from Iron Triangles, allow researchers to focus on not only issue-centered, but complex network relationships between various stakeholders in the field of renewable energy policy. Due to the scholars seldom create long-term issue network diagrams, and lacked of the analysis of interactions between actors at Legislative Yuan in the past, this thesis discussed all the relevant actors at Legislative Yuan about the issue of renewable energy by examining the sixth and seventh terms Legislative Yuan Gazette of Taiwan, and analyzed the gazette by discourse network analysis. The issue network diagrams of the 6th and 7th terms Legislative Yuan is drawn using the software, Discourse Network Analyzer and UCINET. The author then can identify the core actors and issues in different contexts, to know what they did and to understand the considerations for the actors’ behavior in a specific background. The thesis aims to reflect the considerable political reality in Taiwan.
In summary, the findings of this thesis are as follows. Firstly, consistent and divided governments in Taiwan is not the only factor which influenced the government’s operations. Secondly, actors’ interaction in issue network diagrams of two terms of Legislative Yuan varied with the different issues. Thirdly, the composition of the actors at two terms of Legislative Yuan is not stable. Moreover, some administrative agents and legislators have more resources and influence than others. These actors also have high scores for degree centrality, betweenness and closeness in network diagrams. Besides, the Pan-Green Coalition is closer the core position in the issue network diagrams than the Pan-Blue one. Fourthly, legislators have some degree of freedom to express attitudes about the renewable energy issues, in addition to “nuclear energy” issue. That is to say, the iuuse of nuclear energy reflects these two major coalitions’ different ideas. Finally, the two terms of Legislative Yuan’s three main issues about renewable energy are “Research and Development”, “Legislation for Renewable Energy”, and “Application Feasibility of Renewable Energy.” Obviously, the issue of “Research and Development” is the greatest consensus on basic renewable energy between all kinds of actors at Legislative Yuan. This thesis suggests that Taiwanese government should use the consensus to promote further public consultations. And issue network diagrams of renewable energy will provide scholars with more space for development in the future.
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