| 英文摘要 |
Executive-legislative relations are at the core of democratic governance. However, literature on this topic usually focuses on constitutional engineering and legal perspectives. For the purpose of public management, we need a public administration perspective on this issue from a public manager’s viewpoint. Also, examining the daily operation of the legislative liaison reveals the“secret of efficiency”of democratic governance. In this paper, the authors adopt qualitative method of face-to-face interview with 30 persons whose jobs are related to the legislative liaison mechanism in Taipei City Government. Then we utilize a qualitative data analysis software called“NUD．IST (Non-numerical Unstructured Data by techniques of Indexing Searching and Theorizing)”to analyze text-based interview data. Our conclusion is three-folds. First, we find that the nature of the legislative liaison mechanism is information transactions. Second, three factors are critical for establishing an effective legislative liaison mechanism: trust-building, professionalism, and delegation from leadership. Finally, we discover a fundamental conflict between trust-building behavior in the liaison mechanism to encourage cooperation and the purpose of check-and-balance to distrust elected officials. Further research on this topic is needed to reveal the reality of the executive-legislative relations in democratic governance . |
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