Breaking Authoritarian Bonds: The Political Origins of the Taiwan Administrative Procedure Act

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Taiwan recently adopted a series of administrative reform laws designed to make the bureaucracy more transparent and allow public participation in regulatory policies. Because administrative reform limits the executive’s power, it is clear why legislatures would favor strict administrative procedures. But it is less clear why presidents would support them. The passage of these laws begs the question why presidents support administrative procedural reforms designed to slow down and impose extra costs on the implementation of their policies? I argue that in Taiwan, President Lee Teng-hui’s control of his party deteriorated as factional disputes within his own party increased over time. Lee ultimately concluded that the KMT’s political survival depended on major reforms. Consequently, the status-quo-oriented bureaucracy – hitherto an important source of support for Lee and his key constituencies – became an impediment. Lee supported Taiwan’s APA in order to reduce the bureaucracy’s capacity to impede reform. More generally, I argue that administrative procedures designed to open up the bureaucracy to the public, including previously excluded groups, can serve politicians’ goal of redirecting the bureaucracy. Archival data, secondary sources, and interviews with key presidential advisors, senior career bureaucrats, and politicians support my argument.

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