國立臺灣大學政治科學論叢

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The more advanced the transportation infrastructure in a country, the more thebusiness  community  understands  and  can  make  effective  use  of  ports  and  theirfacilities in order to maintain operating profits. If a country can go further and linkup the sites touted as Taiwan’s “industrial ports” and transform into internationalcommercial ports, then besides the expected profits there will also be much greaterconvenience and comparative advantage for the enhancement of Taiwan’s nationalcompetitiveness.The concept of policy networks is appropriate in the sense that it is not identicalto the old institutional perspective where attention focused on formal power. Policynetwork  approach  is  a  mixture  of  top-down  and  bottom-up  approaches  and  offersanother  alternate  research  method  beyond  market  and  hierarchy.  Moreover,  theprocess   of   policy   change   is   an   essential   part   of   Taiwan’s   industrial   portstransformation policy and thus  constitutes another focal point  of this article.  Threemain research questions are as follows.1. What are controversial viewpoints of Taiwan’s industrial ports transformationpolicy?2. How do key players, inter-agency and inter-government, influence policymakingof  Taiwan’s  industrial  ports  transformation  policy  during  the  process  ofpolicy change?3. What  kinds  of  policy  networks  and  policy  change  does  Taiwan’s  industrial ports transformation policy belong to?