The Impacts of Issue Network on Social Housing Policy Formation in Taiwan: A Case Study of Social Housing Advocacy Consortium

• Main Authors: Pei-Yi Chuang, 莊珮怡
• Other Authors: Chih-Wei Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/w7r5az

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 公共行政學系公共政策碩士班 === 101 === In recent years, with the political system liberate, NPO (Non-Profit Organization) in order to increase influence to the government, often looking for ideas consistent organization, integration of resources from organizations, formation of a greater influence to pressure the government. In 2010, Social Housing Advocacy Consortium to be successful with initiate social housing issues through strategic policy advocacy. Therefore, the power from the network issues in the policy formation process could not be neglected. However, this study indicates that few literatures discusses about the impacts of issue network on policy formation in Taiwan. Actually, many studies about NPO and policy advocacy concentrate on the relations between single organization and policy advocacy process. Therefore, this study attempts to analyze the policy formation process from the perspective of issue network. The research concludes, first of all, about Social Housing Advocacy Consortium formation factors includes: (a) Social needs have changed; (b) legitimacy of policy advocacy; (c) Conveners behavior, and (d) Groups consensus on issues. Second, Social Housing Advocacy Consortium can effectively maintain network relationships, is that through clear rules to establish the relationships between members of the network and trust between members on relationship building. Third, Social Housing Advocacy Consortium policy advocacy strategic is divided into: lobbying to candidates, lobbying the legislature, lobbying to the executive authorities, using mass media, protest, organize activities. Finally, according to the results, I found that the interaction between the Social Housing Advocacy Consortium and Government, are both dependent and autonomous in a relationship.