Abstract
The Act on Property-Declaration by Public Servants of the Sunshine Laws is the first legislation of a series of Sunshine Laws. In order to maintain an upright political atmosphere and ensure non-corruptive official conducts, an overall planning for the Sunshine Laws is imminent and inevitable.
An entry level perspective is taken in this research to examine the opinions of the government employees and school staffs of Penghu County towards the property declaration system in Taiwan. The results are obtained through in-depth interviews and qualitative data analysis by the ATLAS.ti software and derived based on the grounded theory. The awareness, attitude, opinions and suggestions of the interviewees are collected and analyzed according to the aspects of regulation, system and implementation.
Since the promulgation of the ¡§Act on Property-Declaration by Public Servants¡¨, one of the first legislations of the Sunshine Laws, it has experienced 15 years of challenges. Despite the likelihood that the enforcement may have achieved the intended political effects, generations of environmental changes have induced diverse problems which are observed in literature reviews and interviews conducted on public servants who have declared their properties. These problems may appear to be non-relevant; however, they impose great difficulty for achieving the vision of righteous and justice. It is expected that these problems will help encourage clean and upright official conducts and uphold a righteous political atmosphere. The existing problems may only be a corner of the iceberg; however, when the situation is extended to the overall system, a similar scenario may occur once a set of comprehensive Sunshine Laws are to be stipulated. As a result, strategies for amending the current or future regulation on the property declaration system should be developed. Based on the above analysis and discussion, the following conclusions are proposed:
1. Regulation aspect:
(i) Reinforce a comprehensive property declaration.
(ii) Establish a definitive declaration scope and content.
(iii) It is imminent and inevitable that a comprehensive set of Sunshine Laws should be stipulated.
(iv) Accentuate on the law-obeying attitude.
2. Institution aspect:
(i) Reinforce an open and transparent processing procedure.
(ii) Set a definitive deadline that all properties should be declared within one month of employment or taking office.
(iii) Establish a property declaration system based on ¡§administrative penalty¡¨.
(iv) Promote the legislation of ¡§Trust Law¡¨ and ¡§Trust Companies Law¡¨.
3. Implementation aspect:
(i) Increase the percentage of sampling.
(ii) Maintain the integrity of the ¡§Sunshine Laws¡¨, form an ¡§incorrupt and capable government¡¨.
(iii) Ensure the function of examination and inspection.
(iv) Reinforce the task of education and promotion.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0831108-122634 |
| Date | 31 August 2008 |
| Creators | Cheng, Jung-Lung |
| Contributors | Fu-Yung Kuan, Jin-Hwa Wu, Bor-Wen Jeng, Yu-Lan Hsing, Fu-Yung Kuan |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0831108-122634 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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