A Framework of Public Utility Privatisation and Regulation

公用事業民營化和管制之制度分析

鄭國泰(Kuo-Tai Cheng)

《花蓮教育大學學報》 24期 (2007/05) Pp. 93-121

摘要

當西方先進國家大力推動公用事業民營之時，發展中國家在推行公用事業民營化時，除了電信事業外，其餘公用事業的民營化進程是充滿困難。所以，本文旨在對發展中國家之公用事業民營化進行深入分析，經由制度途徑來瞭解民營化的推行過程，以釐清公用事業民營化和管制的橋接問題，主要涵括制度環境中的經濟、政治、意識型態、行政和法律層面。因此，本文認為公用事業民營化除了制度架構和環境的重視外，為了營造更多的市場競爭，有必要強化管制，以配合更為廣泛的結構革新。

關鍵字

公用事業 ； 民營化 ； 管制 ； 管制治理

並列摘要

Privatising public utilities in many developing countries have been slow, uneven, and plagued by many obstacles. Drastic, technical, and unpredictable changes in the 'enabling environment' that affect the initiation and implementation of privatisation programmes are required. Therefore, it is significant to improve understanding of the institutional framework that formulates the essential links for public utility privatisation and regulatory govemance, with particular reference to institutional environment (economic, political, ideological, administrative, and legal perspectives). The purpose of the paper is to examine the institutional setting of privatisation with particular reference to developing countries by presenting a holistic interdisciplinary framework within which the institutional environment of public utility privatisation process can be better analysed. Moreover, this paper is argued that privatising public utilities is needed to be complemented by policies that promote competition and effective regulation when it is integrated into a broader process of structural reform.

並列關鍵字

public utility ； privatization ； regulation ； regulatory governance