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Yeh, Jiunn-rong --- "Experimenting with independent commissions in a new democracy with a civil law tradition: the case of Taiwan" [2017] ELECD 1093; in Rose-Ackerman, Susan; Lindseth, L. Peter; Emerson, Blake (eds), "Comparative Administrative Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 198

Book Title: Comparative Administrative Law

Editor(s): Rose-Ackerman, Susan; Lindseth, L. Peter; Emerson, Blake

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784718657

Section: Chapter 12

Section Title: Experimenting with independent commissions in a new democracy with a civil law tradition: the case of Taiwan

Author(s): Yeh, Jiunn-rong

Number of pages: 20

Abstract/Description:

This chapter uses Taiwan as a case study to demonstrate the perils and prospects of introducing independent commissions into new democracies with civil administrative law systems. Positive political economy is employed to explore the political dynamics behind the creation and operation of such commissions and the application of these arguments to Taiwan. It contrasts the National Communications Commission with the Taiwanese Central Bank to show how ‘independence’ may have more to do with political culture beyond the formal institutional properties of an agency.