The Relationships Between Local Political Ecology and Local Administration
Author: Yung-mau Chao
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The paper intends to analyze the relationships between local political ecology and local administration. Local political ecology is constituted with local faction bosses, mafia politicians, businessmen politicians, and some concerned interest groups. This ecology web strongly impact the local authorities. Local political mafia, factions and businessmen always use the power of privileges to conduct the extortion and solicitation on personnel, construction case, purchases and the monopoly or protection of special reciprocal benefits. These acts are seriously damage the neutrality of administration, and weakening the prestige of local government. This ecological structure in Taiwan local politics also conducts as a corrupt political class, and very much like a dynamic system of corruption as well. The dynamics of political corruption appear to be interwoven with the power of political parties to strengthen their mandate. This ecology has had the effect of further reducing defences against local political corruption and bad administration.