Governance Issues and Resolutions of the Taoyuan Aerotropolis Program: A Holistic Governance Perspective
Mei-Hsuan Lu, Yu-Chang Ke
Abstract
There has been a wave of developing airport areas that integrates air transportation, conferences, exhibiting, and other industries to promote local and economic developments. Because Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport is the nation’s gate, the Central and local governments passed the Taoyuan Metropolis Program and the “Enforcement Rules of International Airport Park Development Act” to develop economy. However, the implementation of the program did not go very well. This study analyzed the main issues of the development program-fragmented governance, from the viewpoint of holistic governance with the methods of literature review and depth interviewing. The issues of fragmented governance include different levels of governments, different sectors, and technical functions, leading to the conflicts of goals and strategies of a variety of bureaucrats and organizations, and hence delay the development program. The Taoyuan Aerotropolis program is basically a cross-boundary problem which crosses different levels of governments, different sectors, and functions. Therefore, the analytic framework and process of this study has the potential to apply to other similar issues with thinking and resolutions.
Keywords: Taoyuan Aerotropolis Program, holistic governance, fragmented governance, coordination and integration.
* Mei-Hsuan Lu, M.A., Departmnet of Public Policy and Administration of National Chi Nan University; Yu-Chang Ke, Associate professor, Department of Public Policy and Administration of National Chi Nan University, email: ycke@ncnu.edu.tw.