英文摘要 |
Taking the hotly debated energy issues in Taiwan and in Romania as its research focus, this paper attempts to analyze how executive powers from the central government intervene in local governance and politics. This paper firstly draws on governance theory to delineate the triangular power relation among the two executive heads, namely the president and the premier, and local grass-roots governance, in Taiwan and in Romania. It is argued that for Taiwan and Romania, as the unitary state that emphasizes decentralization, when it comes to issues concerning both national and local interests, the two-headed executive framework and executive-legislative interaction do influence the leading executive's policy, as well as the central government's instruction to the local government. Based on the cases of energy controversy in the two countries, this paper also suggests that the executive heads' power relation and their political interests are main factors which put energy issues in the dilemma of promoting economic development or advocating environmental protection. |