« Taiwan Journal of Political Science No.10Publish: 1999/06

Customer-Oriented Strategy for Reinventing Government

Author: Shoei-Po Lin, Chih-Wei Chen

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The  customer  strategy  is  one  of  reinventing  government  strategies utilized by many contemporary countries. The purposes of the paper are to describe,  evaluate,  and  discover  pitfalls  of  this  strategy.  It  describes  six different  types  of  management:  political,  service,  accountability,  trust, accessibility,  and  stakeholder.  Then  the  paper  evaluates  the  strategy  and appeals  alarms  of  its  utilization.  They  are:  domination  of  interest  group, incremental   enlargement   of   administrative   power,   interorganizational conflict, and inadequate incentives. The  paper  also  addresses  that  its  final  interest  of  this  strategy  is  to practice   democratic   administration   and   let   customer   be   the   boss   of government. Hence, if reinventing government can be built on the basis of intersubjectivity  among  government  and  her  customers,  then  reengineering of  this  strategy  can  be  more  revolutionary  and  far-sighted  than  other proposed strategy.

Keywords:Customer Strategy、Democratic Administration、Dual Accountability、new public management、One-stop Window、Voucher