英文摘要 |
In recent years, due to fiscal constraints and an ageing society, public-private partnership (PPP) has been seen as one of the best strategies for providing eldercare in Taiwan. Hence, management of collaborative mechanisms for eldercare service provision has become an important topic in public administration and social policy. However, most scholars examine the issue from a government-centric viewpoint, focusing on how to reduce the costs of collaborative mechanisms through monitoring of the private institutions entrusted by the government to provide eldercare. These analyses completely neglect the possibility that the government is in fact the primary cause of problems in these collaborative efforts. This paper examines how transaction costs imposed by the government might lead to failures in eldercare provision by investigating eldercare institutions in Tainan City. Mail-questionnaire survey data collected from the managers of 48 eldercare institutions in Tainan are analyzed. The study's findings indicate that (1) compared with middle-sized and large institutions, small institutions feel the government does not respect them enough; (2) smaller institutions are more likely than middle-sized and large institutions to view evaluation indicators as difficult or unrealistic and as inconsistent with their current needs; (3) operation of the evaluation system suffers from formalism and a gap exists between the effects and costs of evaluation. The study offers policy suggestions for modifying eldercare institution evaluation in the future. |