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Autonomy and Governance Mechanisms of Regulation in Taiwan’s Communications Regulator

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The capacity of regulatory bodies to derive public value from their governance mechanisms as well as their autonomy is a characteristic of the modern communications economy. The question of effective regulatory governance is examined from the standpoint of regulatory capabilities in this study. This viewpoint contends that managerial, policy, and financial autonomy, as well as the regulatory process architecture of transparency, independence, accountability, and participation, are necessary regulatory competences for effective regulation. The current study used a questionnaire survey in Taiwan (N = 164) to conduct a cross-sectional analysis. Participants were drawn from the National Communications Commission’s (NCC) numerous sectors. The survey data was used to examine measurement and structural models employing structural equation modeling. This study empirically models and exposes important components of these regulatory governance dimensions using survey data from 164 regulatory officers. The findings offer a structure for develo** a regulatory agency’s competitive propensity in the context of privatization, liberalization, and government regulators. The delimitations, as well as their implications for practice and future research, are discussed.

Data Availability Statement: The data that support the findings of this chapter are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request after the chapter being published. The dataset was newly collected and never being used for publication.

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Cheng, KT. (2023). Autonomy and Governance Mechanisms of Regulation in Taiwan’s Communications Regulator. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_307-1

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