Legislation and Development of Hakka Basic Act: An Analysis of Act’s Amendments in 2018
Pao-Chien Wang *
Abstract
The essay employs the literature review method as well as theories on public policy and administrative law to examine the legislation and amendment of the Hakka Basic Act in 2010 and 2018. The main findings include: 1. A policy window was open for legislating and amending the Hakka Basic Act. 2. The Hakka Basic Act 2010 focuses on promoting the collective rights of the Hakka ethnic group; then, the amended Act introduces the personal rights protection mechanism and implements Hakka language as a national language, regional language, and teaching language. 3. The Hakka Basic Act builds various policy instruments to revive the Hakka language, seeking in the next stage to promote a set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of Hakka culture.
Keywords: Hakka Basic Act, Hakka language, policy window
* Assistant Professor, Department of Hakka Language and Social Sciences, National Central University, e-mail: d93341008@ntu.edu.tw.