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In the early 1970s, scholars in several disciplines from the developing countries questioned the transplantation of Western social sciences and asserted the necessity of indigenization. Indigenization represents an attitude regarding the proper direction for the development of a particular discipline in a country. The concept of indigenization, or sinicization, has been discussed by many Chinese social scientists. The author explores the indigenization of public administration knowledge in Taiwan. (DÜI-Sen)

Examines civil service reform through a simulation of the first two steps in the strategic planning process, problem identification and other policy issues; Taiwan. Based on questionnaires completed by 90 national and municipal civil servants and academics; 1990.

Over forty years of research into the authoritarian personality has largely revolved around the measuring instrument, i.e., scales. Taking Altemeyer's Right‐wing Authoritarianism scale (1988) as illustrative of the orthodox approach to studying authoritarianism, we subjected high scorers, in both the United States and Taiwan, to Q factor analysis. This analysis demonstrated a secondary viewpoint, unrelated to a conventional understanding of authoritarianism, that would have been obscured by scale measurement. However, we show this information to be available even to those who use psychometric methods to study the phenomenon.