In recent years, due to the continuous development of globalization, countries are faced with various challenges toward the national public policy adjustments based on global development. The work to promote the development of public policy under globalization will become the main academic research trend in near future. This dissertation has widely observed this trend mainly focusing the issue of global governance and national governance with the emphasis on the public policies on indigenous peoples in the world.
As far as the global governance is concerned the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples （UNDRIP） which was made as early as 2007 has been seen as a typical model. As for the national governance, manly nations also enacted laws and regulations on indigenous policy following the UNDRIP. This dissertation is trying to make a comparative research on Taiwan and New Zealand to explore the difference under the direction and guidance of the UNDRIP.
With regard to the theoretical basis, this dissertation uses David Easton’s " Political System Theory " as the constructional formulation. This writer is trying to discuss the classification of the five major rights of the indigenous people, namely, self-saving rights, self-protection rights, autonomy rights, ownership rights and self-determination rights, with the aim to compare the similarities and differences between the two countries’ aboriginal policy on governance operations.
Under the framework of David Easton’s " Political System Theory ", the whole dissertation is divided into ten chapters as follows: Chapter one explains the research motivation and academic contribution. Chapter Two is a literature review with the emphasis on research approaches of normative, empirical, and value-based research. Chapter Three is to clarify the research design and main analysis framework of this dissertation. Chapter Four explores the UNDRIP with the major concern on the structure on global governance and national governance. Chapter Five to Chapter Nine explore the major subjects on the Environment of Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan and New Zealand as well as the comparison of the two countries’ aboriginal policy input factors, policy-making transformation process, policy implementation, policy feedback, etc.. Chapter Ten presents the findings and research recommendations.
