dc.description.abstract | There are many ethnics in Taiwan society, which consists of different cultures, languages, customs, and values, etc. It is inevitable to have some different opinions and conflicts during the distribution of public resources. Governments usually deal with those conflicts and crisis by two ways. First, elect the delegates to show the representation. Second, increase the percentage of representative bureaucracy. However, it is not easy to reflect the value of minority groups, and the bureaucracy may not function properly because of resources squeeze. Accordingly, many countries started to set up representative agencies to protect the welfare of minority groups.
The set-up of Hakka representative agency was caused by Hakka campaigns, which includes the operations of Hakka leagues and TV programs, started from1987. By 13-year-efforts, Hakka Affairs Council was set up and started to operate in 2000. It is the first time Hakka was recognized by the government, and it is the foundation of Hakka administrative agency of Local Governments. Despite the highly representation and specialty of the representative agency, it is still a part of the government and should be supervised by legislators , people, and media to set up an operate pattern. Different patterns of accountability may interfere the representative agencies. It is the purpose of this research to keep the balance between the accountability and representation.
The author takes Hakka Affairs Council and Hakka Affairs Department, New Taipei City for example to format the suitable pattern of Ethnic-based Representative Agency through administrative accountability, political accountability, and social accountability and hopes it can enforce the accountability of current Hakka administrative organizations to make it better.
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