This book explores how the policy-making process is changing in the very volatile conditions of present day mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It considers the overall background conditions the need to rebalance in mainland China after years of hectic economic growth; governance transition and democratic consolidation in Taiwan; and governance crisis in Hong Kong under a regime of uncertain legitimacy. It examines the various actors in the policy-making process the civic engagement of ordinary people and the roles of legislators, mass media and bureaucracy and discusses how these actors interact in a range of different policy cases. Throughout the book contrasts the different approaches in the three different jurisdictions, and assesses how the policy-making process is changing and how it is likely to change further.
Preface Part 1: Civic Engagement
1. Social Policy for Elderly People:
the Case of Haishu District, Ningbo City
2. Civic Engagement and Policy
Making in Taiwan: The Case of Great Bitan Reform Program
3. Civic Engagement
and Cultural Policymaking in Hong Kong: The Case of the West Kowloon Cultural
Development District Part 2: Legislature
4. Participatory Budgeting: A Way to
Reinforce the Power of the Peoples Congresses
5. Understanding
Democratization through Electoral Connection in Congressional Policy Making:
A Case on the Golden Decade of Social Policy Legislation in Taiwan
6. Can
Legislature in a Half-baked Democracy Serve the Public? The Case of Minimum
Wage Legislation in Hong Kong Part 3: Mass Media
7. Mass Media in Fragmented
Administrative Policymaking Power in Mainland China: The Case of the
Big-headed Babies Incident
8. The Media Power of Manufacturing Policies:
The Policymaking Process of the Su Hua Highway in Taiwan
9. The Role of Mass
Media in Political Reform of Hong Kong Part 4: Bureaucracy
10. Selective
Policy Implementation by Bureaucracy in China: The Case of Civil Service
Remuneration Policy
11. How Far Does Bureaucracy Control the Agenda of
Government Personnel Administrative Policy in Taiwan? The Case of Lawmaking
of Civil Service Neutrality
12. Education reforms and Bureaucratic
Manipulation in Post-Colonial Hong Kong Comparison and Implications
Bennis Wai Yip So is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration at National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Yuang-kuang Kao is a Professor in the Graduate Institute of Social Science and Humanities, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
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