A study on Factors Impacting Distribution of Tourism Subsidies in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Shu-Chuan Chen, 陳淑娟
• Other Authors: Ming-Tong Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cdxtr7

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 國家發展研究所 === 105 === My research motivation is stemmed from "distributive policy". It explores the distributing process as well as result of policy benefits. The theory of distributive policy argues that empowered distributors prefer to allocate more resources to specific groups or areas and transfer costs to the whole population in order to maximize their interests. Distributors who own the political power such as mayors or representatives will bring home the bacon to soliciting votes. There is much research specified on distributive policy. But in view of that Taiwan''s empirical research on the tourism subsidies of distributive policy is still inadequate. My study used the " TOP-notch Tourism Plan ", conducted by the Tourism Bureau, M.O.T.C., to activate the local attractions by distributing subsidies from 2009 to 2014. Using quantitative research methods by secondary data to explore the impacting factors of the tourism subsidies. Comprehensive analysis of the empirical results of this study, four findings are as follows: First, when the county’s legislators are with a higher membership ratio of the ruling party (KMT), these counties will be distributed the more subsidies. Second, when the county magistrate’s party is the same with the central ruling party (KMT), these counties will be distributed the more subsidies. Third, the more the number of tourists to the counties, it will be distributed the more subsidies. Fourth, the lower population density counties will be distributed the more subsidies. Keywords: distributive policy, distributive theory, legislators, tourism subsidies