Abstract

This paper seeks to deal an examination of circumstances surrounding the 2001 Baseball World Cup period, illustrates the political dynamics of the power struggles, and relationships between the state and other relevant actors such as government institutions, political parties, politicians, and the international sporting body within the governance system of baseball in Taiwan. An analysis of the strategic relations evidenced in part by a number of actors' perceptions are intended to make important contributions to our understanding of the governance form of this system. The paper finally allows us to characterize features of the political system of baseball in Taiwan and understand the practices of the actors in the system. It also identifies the dynamics of the power-relations among them in which the perspectives of specific groups of actors are evident for their behaviors such as utilizing different resources and access to achieve their preferred ends. Verf.-Referat