民間聯盟參與1,410億治水預算審查－政治機會結構的觀點
摘要
In January 2006, the Legislative Yuan passed the ”Special Act for Flood Control” and the ”Special Act Governing the Management of the Shimen Reservoir and its Catchment Area,” all amounting to NT$141 billion. This essay examines the case of the 1410 Ta-Yu Flood Management Alliance, formed by many environmental organizations for the purpose of supervising the budget legislation. By using political opportunity structure theory, this essay gives an account of how the alliance of interests (formed by the Executive Yuan, the Water Resources Agency, legislators and local governments) is organized and how they cooperate. Furthermore, this essay asks how the environmental alliance uses different kinds of political opportunities in order to supervise the policy. This research discovers that in the face of the alliance's proposition of prudent supervision, it is not easy to uphold this under local pressure. On one hand is the alliance's inability to mobilize related stakeholders in specific areas due to overreaching issues and on the other hand is the solid relationship within the interest alliance. It is only through a few friendly legislators and social pressure that a few regular mechanisms have been added for the increased disclosure of information, performance evaluation and citizen participation during the legislation process. Through these new political opportunities, it is hoped that a stronger foothold for public involvement and supervision can be found in the policy implementation stage.