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A Comparison of the Electricity Industry Liberalization and Electricity Acts Thesis Abstract The purpose of this paper attempted to figure out the degrees of electricity industry liberalization through a comparative analysis of electricity acts among USA, Japan, and European countries. The result of this research will provide a reference for the government to amend the current draft of the Electricity Act. And the paper also made several suggestions for Taiwan to develop related regulations and operating rules under the Electricity Act. The approaches of this research are to review the background of the electricity act amendment in various countries, to analyze the framework of electricity market and its institutional aims among selected countries, and figure out prerequisites of electricity liberalization and its related conditional measures, including in Taiwan. The reason of driving electricity industry liberalization in those countries is to promote competition and increase efficiency. The paper finds out that Taiwan has the same culture and background in energy situation and economic pattern. The results of this paper will be worthy for the government agencies and legislative body to reconsider the competition mechanism and energy policy in the draft of the Electricity Act Amendment.

Univ. Panthéon-Assas, Diss.--Paris, 2004.

Univ., Diss.--Paris, 2005.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [79]-86).

published_or_final_version / Philosophy / Master / Master of Philosophy

This dissertation reexamines the assumption that regards the language of a text to be primarily discursive and propositional, signifying the antecedents to its real world, whether real or hypothetical. It will be argued that such an assumption reduces the meaning of the text to the nexus of its historical relationships. A methodological reconsideration sets out to reconceive the text of I John as a function of language, i.e., a communicative event encapsulating a series of speech acts which constitute the subjectivity of both writer and reader/hearer and which make truth claims about the world and about God though scarcely in propositional form. Important to this re-evaluation is J. L. Austin's fundamental observation that linguistic sequences rather than describing actions, are themselves action where an appropriate circumstance and linguistic convention delimit the potential speech acts possible within the limits of certain speech act circumstances. In addition, Jacques Derrida's significant conclusion that the act of writing is constitutive of the writing subject is linked with Donald Evan's realization of the self-involving character of religious language in which speech acts of the commissive, expressive, representative, and directive types and their implicature play a primary role in making explicit intention and attitude.

Thesis (M.A.)--Cincinnati Christian University, 2006. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-168).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Erlangen.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Breslau.