The Problems and Solutions of Public Service Ethics in Taiwan: Perspective of the Relations between Political Appointees and Civil Servants

Philosophy and Culture 36 (1):45-68 (2009)
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In 2000, after China's first ruling party, but the beginning of the rotation, the Chief Executive and are unable to adapt to each other often Renwen Guan, when the ruling Democratic Progressive Party proposed a "new government, the old bureaucracy," "do not replace the official with the transaction "and other ideas. But at the same time, government officials are replaced frequently, the civil service system will Fanji Administrative Officer has the power to arrogance, incompetence and other conditions. After the second ruling party, also occurred in the transfer of the Executive Yuan Deputy Secretary-General Mei-Ling Chen refused to retire and choose the event, Pan-blue camp is to purge those who accused former officials. This kind of criticism will not help each other to establish a reasonable official code of ethics, but also affect the national governance. KMT and the DPP generally considered a failure, which for many reasons, but that the author is interested in the DPP government, between government and the bureaucracy's relations have been poor, the Kuomintang back to power, whether there are similar situations it? In this paper, theory shows that the bureaucracy and government officials should play a role. Secondly, the second from the practice shows that our ruling party, the Chief Officer and the bureaucracy of the relationship and interaction situations, and explain the reasons for these phenomena occur. Concludes with administrative officers and the bureaucracy of the ethical framework, indicating that the two sides "as is" and "inappropriate to" things, to our country in the normal political parties, the administrative officers and the bureaucracy between the appropriate set of common civil code of ethics to follow. Taiwan experienced the first party rotation in 2000, but political appointees and civil servants did not establish cooperative relations at the beginning stage. The ruling party-Democratic Progressive Party -charged the new administration was trapped in old bureaucracy so that it replaced disobedient civil servants. Meanwhile, the term of political appointees were very short and civil servants complained those political appointees incapable and abuse of power. After the second rotation in 2008, the deputy secretary-general of the Executive Yuan refused to be transferred to a new position , and then she chose to retire. The DPP censured that the ruling party-Kuomintang -carried out a purge of previous administration's officials. Such criticisms are harmful to the establishment of appropriate relations between political appointees and civil servants, and affect the operation of the administration. The article describes the role and the responsibilities of political appointees and permanent civil servants and the dilemma they have to face. Then, it demonstrates some examples about the bad interaction between political appointees and civil servants and their reasons during the two party rotations. Finally, it brings up an ethical framework for political appointees and civil servants to illustrate what they "should do" and "should not do", and tries to build up the suitable relations between them and set up an appropriate norm

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