The thesis uses the case study of software industry development to investigate the role of the state, relationship with the private sectors, and its transformation. Besides, This paper adopts Peter Evans¡¦ ¡§embedded autonomy¡¨ and Linda Weiss¡¦s ¡§governed interdependence theory¡¨ to explain these situations. As far as Taiwan, the state helped develop software industry after 1980s. At that time, there was no software programming or service company in Taiwan. Like the other strategy industry, the state set up the pilot agency, III, to support software industry, but the state didn¡¦t intervene in production. The unique character of software industrial development has been its synchronized globalization among developed and developing world. To out-compete among others in software industry is quite a gap for Taiwan. Besides, Taiwan¡¦s labor cost is higher then India and Mainland China. So, Taiwan has no chance to get the low-level business. In the analysis, the state¡¦s e-government budget didn¡¦t benefit to software industry. The state have no obvious network with society, have no control force to software private sectors, and the state¡¦s capacity was be doubted. So the state only just plays a ¡§husbandry¡¨ ideal-type.

國民黨執政期間國家社會關係為上對下威權統治關係，而後威權時期台灣國家社會關係最突出的現象為社會自主性的提昇，國家社會關係轉變為平行合作伙伴關係，經濟自由化促進政治民主化，表面上「民意」成為台灣政經發展的主要推動力量，但支持台灣後威權時期民主政治發展之多元制度卻仍付之闕如，促使台灣發生類似民主民粹化現象。高漲的民意反噬民主政治賴以建立的根基—多元化民主，政治一元化論述撕裂了民主社會應有的基本共識與互信，並造成國家認同問題，筆者認為，民主民粹化現象使後威權時期台灣國家社會關係反而回到國家社會衝突對抗關係，多元與互補性認同是撫癒此種社會裂痕的主要關鍵。而缺乏制度性安排是造成此種緊張關係的主要原因，國家社會鑲嵌性不足，聯帶影響台灣整體國家能力。 後威權時期台灣所臨的困境主要在於如何以制度性安排重建國家社會鑲嵌性，社會需求、想法能循正常制度管道完全供輸至公部門，而公部門在制定重大政策時能同時整合私部門的需求與想法，但切忌以國家基礎建設能力為祭品，讓行政官僚體系無法發揮應有的效能，不僅社會鑲嵌性出現問題，也使貧富差距加大，造成社會不穩定。 台灣正處於政經轉型階段，如何以正面適切的回應解決來自全球化的挑戰，是政府和民間社會必需共同面對的問題，制度若無法成為民主政治的主要屏障，則民主化不必然保證多元社會的出現。