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The study examines the evolvemnent of cultural policy in Taiwan through analyzing the budget of the Council of Cultural Affairs (CCA)--Taiwan¡¦s first and only cabinet-level government cultural agency, since its inauguration in 1982 to present. The study reviews the structure, variation and trend of CCA¡¦s general budget, and examines the budget data with policy White Papers. During President Chiag Ching-guo and Chen Shui-bian¡¦s administration, budget item variations were limited and the growth and distribution of budget have been relatively stable. During President Lee Teng-hui¡¦s administration, there were significant changes in budget items and distribution, as well as rapid growth in budget amounts. In each President¡¦s administration, the Ministers of CCA who had longer tenure tend to have more stable policy goals. The cultural policy largely influenced by changes of Ministers as well as socio-political situation. In the budget of CCA, only six items (Cultural heritage, cultural communication, international exchange, visual arts and performing arts) had been listed in the budget of CCA since its founding. The only new item had been keeping to present is Community Revitalization. Comparing with the cultural development of Taiwan, long term and continual support are critical to the achievement of cultural policy projects.

Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / In an environment characterised by dwindling resources and citizens’ expectations relentlessly increasing, public sector organisations face many challenges to improve service delivery. This is further exacerbated by the failing confidence and public trust that result from leaders not leading with values. Recent research has illustrated that the importance of good leadership across the public sector is critical for building effective countries. Additionally, research has also shown that public sector organisations embracing value-driven cultures are able to achieve far greater performance and overcome some of the current challenges in the environment. The purpose of this research study was therefore to gain insight into the relationship between value-based leadership and organisational performance. The study was conducted within the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport and considered the importance of values to senior managers, how value congruency was achieved and how this related to the achievement of organisational performance. A detailed study of the literature in the field of leadership, values and organisational performance has provided various researchers’ opinions on these subjects, namely how values affects organisation performance. Information was obtained from the various documents available within the broader public sector. The target population for this research included the Head of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (DCAS) and his senior managers. The fourth chapter of this assignment discusses the results obtained from the primary data collected through the questionnaires sent to senior executives as well as the interviews conducted with the head of department (HOD) and senior managers of DCAS. The conclusions from the research results are discussed in Chapter 5. The findings of this study will contribute significantly to better inform public policy practitioners, departments and leadership on the role of value-based leadership and how it could greatly enhance performance within organisations. The study concluded that the senior managers of DCAS attribute great importance to values and could illustrate this through living these values. The research also revealed that leadership places great emphasis on implementing a detailed strategy to achieve value congruency within the organisation. Finally, the research concluded that DCAS is a value-based organisation and as a result infuses core values into all activities of employees, thereby resulting in the excellence they have achieved as a public sector organisation.

Este trabalho destaca um conjunto de três romances de Erico Verissimo cujos enredos estão ambientados total ou parcialmente fora do Brasil. Escritos num intervalo de vinte e sete anos, Saga (1940), O senhor embaixador (1965) e O prisioneiro (1967) vinculam-se a uma atitude cosmopolita que cedo se manifestou na carreira do escritor gaúcho, assinalando significativo afastamento do projeto nacionalista hegemônico no modernismo literário no Brasil. Essa abertura cosmopolita de Erico Verissimo, sua atuação como editor, seu engajamento na esfera pública como intelectual e certas circunstâncias históricas lhe permitiram inserir-se nas malhas das relações culturais interamericanas a partir do período da II Guerra Mundial. Essa posição privilegiada, convertida em \"poder simbólico\", promoveu a tradução de algumas de suas obras para o inglês e abriu espaço para que assumisse um papel proeminente como \"tradutor e intérprete cultural\" entre Brasil, Estados Unidos e, em alguma medida, América Hispânica. Na confluência entre história intelectual, estudo da recepção crítica e análise e interpretação literárias, busco estabelecer relações entre o percurso internacional especificamente norte-americano do escritor, as transformações temáticas, formais e ideológicas desses três romances \"estrangeiros\" e a trajetória da recepção crítica de tais textos, discutindo as transformações que o cosmopolitismo e o humanismo de Erico Verissimo sofreram ao longo de três décadas de intensa atividade artística e intelectual. / In this work I study three novels by Erico Verissimo in which the plot is set outside Brazil. Written over a period of twenty-seven years, Saga (1940), O senhor embaixador (1965) and O prisioneiro (1967) represent a cosmopolitan attitude that manifested early 9 in Verissimo\'s career, marking a significant departure from the hegemonic nationalist project in literary modernism in Brazil. His cosmopolitan openness, his work as an editor, his engagement in the public sphere as an intellectual, and certain other historical circumstances helped integrate Erico Verissimo into the mesh of Inter-American cultural affairs during and following World War II. This special position, converted into \"symbolic power\", promoted the translation of some of his works into English and allowed him to assume a prominent role as a \"cultural translator and interpreter\" between Brazil, United States and, to some extent, Hispanic America. In the frame of intellectual history, the study of critical reception, and literary analysis, I intend to understand the relation between Verissimo\'s international projection especially in the U.S. , thematic, formal, and ideological features of these three \"foreign\" novels and the critical reception of such texts. My aim is to discuss the changes that the cosmopolitanism and humanism of the author suffered over three decades of intense intellectual and artistic activity.

Este trabalho destaca um conjunto de três romances de Erico Verissimo cujos enredos estão ambientados total ou parcialmente fora do Brasil. Escritos num intervalo de vinte e sete anos, Saga (1940), O senhor embaixador (1965) e O prisioneiro (1967) vinculam-se a uma atitude cosmopolita que cedo se manifestou na carreira do escritor gaúcho, assinalando significativo afastamento do projeto nacionalista hegemônico no modernismo literário no Brasil. Essa abertura cosmopolita de Erico Verissimo, sua atuação como editor, seu engajamento na esfera pública como intelectual e certas circunstâncias históricas lhe permitiram inserir-se nas malhas das relações culturais interamericanas a partir do período da II Guerra Mundial. Essa posição privilegiada, convertida em \"poder simbólico\", promoveu a tradução de algumas de suas obras para o inglês e abriu espaço para que assumisse um papel proeminente como \"tradutor e intérprete cultural\" entre Brasil, Estados Unidos e, em alguma medida, América Hispânica. Na confluência entre história intelectual, estudo da recepção crítica e análise e interpretação literárias, busco estabelecer relações entre o percurso internacional especificamente norte-americano do escritor, as transformações temáticas, formais e ideológicas desses três romances \"estrangeiros\" e a trajetória da recepção crítica de tais textos, discutindo as transformações que o cosmopolitismo e o humanismo de Erico Verissimo sofreram ao longo de três décadas de intensa atividade artística e intelectual. / In this work I study three novels by Erico Verissimo in which the plot is set outside Brazil. Written over a period of twenty-seven years, Saga (1940), O senhor embaixador (1965) and O prisioneiro (1967) represent a cosmopolitan attitude that manifested early 9 in Verissimo\'s career, marking a significant departure from the hegemonic nationalist project in literary modernism in Brazil. His cosmopolitan openness, his work as an editor, his engagement in the public sphere as an intellectual, and certain other historical circumstances helped integrate Erico Verissimo into the mesh of Inter-American cultural affairs during and following World War II. This special position, converted into \"symbolic power\", promoted the translation of some of his works into English and allowed him to assume a prominent role as a \"cultural translator and interpreter\" between Brazil, United States and, to some extent, Hispanic America. In the frame of intellectual history, the study of critical reception, and literary analysis, I intend to understand the relation between Verissimo\'s international projection especially in the U.S. , thematic, formal, and ideological features of these three \"foreign\" novels and the critical reception of such texts. My aim is to discuss the changes that the cosmopolitanism and humanism of the author suffered over three decades of intense intellectual and artistic activity.

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