Studies on the Aboriginal Councilors’ Electoral Services: A Case Study of Aboriginal Councilors in Taoyuan

• Main Authors: CHEN,TAI-HUNG, 陳泰宏
• Other Authors: SHI, DAI-LIN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41546967828097195237

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 公共事務學系碩士班 === 105 === The electoral system of the aboriginal councilors is very different from that of the ordinary councilors. In order to protect the political participation right of the general people, the aboriginal peoples containing 16 ethnic groups are divided into "Plain Aborigines" and "Mountain Aborigines". Local System Law stipulates that a seat of councilor should be reserved when the number of aboriginals is only 2,000. When the number of aboriginal people exceed 10,000, and one more seat can be added; that is to say, for each additional 10,000 aboriginals, one more seat can be added. Compared with the seats of the general councilors, it is clearly shown that the threshold of the aboriginal participation in politics is much lower than that of the general councilors. There is also a difference in electoral-service demands of aboriginal councilors. The findings show that most of the services in the metropolitan area are mostly kind of private requests; nevertheless, most of the mountain areas require services of grassroots, local construction, etc., Most of the councilors’ electorate services lie in local construction. Whether being successful re-election or not, most of the respondents said that the votes would be closely related to electorate services, that well-done councilors should be given positive evaluation and support their re-election. From the type of electoral services of the Aboriginal councilors, it can be seen that the aborigines should strengthen the law education and improve the plight of the disadvantaged groups. In addition to the existing legal support, the aborigines may cooperate with the administrative institutions to focus on the areas where the aboriginal population is concentrated, conducting legal lectures at regular intervals. Meanwhile, issues such as employment, care services, medical and other life support should be solved. Many problems occur because of poor family economic conditions. Therefore , It is recommended to pay more attention to the problem of disadvantageous ethnic groups, and create 24H social relief hotline services and other relevant policies so that the aborigines can have more channels in life for even better assistance.