Lin Chia-cheng
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| name = Lin Chia-cheng
| native_name = {{nobold|林嘉誠}}
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| nationality = Taiwanese
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| office1 = Minister of Examination
| term_start1 = 20 May 2004
| term_end1 = 20 May 2008
| predecessor1 = Liu Chu-chih
| successor1 = {{nowrap|Hwang Yea-baang (acting)}}
Yang Chao-hsiang
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| office2 = Minister of the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission
| term_start2 = May 2000
| term_end2 = May 2004
| predecessor2 = Wea Chi-lin
| successor2 = Yeh Jiunn-rong
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1952}}
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| education = National Taiwan University (BA, PhD)
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Lin Chia-cheng ({{zh|t=林嘉誠}}; born 1952) is a Taiwanese political scientist, sociologist, and politician.
Education and career
Lin completed a bachelor's degree in economics at National Taiwan University, remaining at the university to pursue graduate studies in political science. He then became a professor of sociology at Soochow University.{{cite news |title=The New Cabinet |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=4&post=4055 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Taipei Review |date=1 July 2000}} While Lin taught at Soochow University, he was invited to a number of panel discussions hosted by the Free China Review. During these discussions in 1988, Lin described the relationship between lifting martial law in Taiwan and its effect on democratization,{{cite news |title=Quickened Pace Of Political Change |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=4&post=4656 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Free China Review |date=1 August 1988}} explicitly cautioned the Democratic Progressive Party against focusing on Taiwan independence, opining that independence was not achievable at that point in time, but continually advocating for it would increase political tension and division.{{cite news |title=On "Taiwan Independence" |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=4&post=4626 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Free China Review |date=1 January 1988}} In another panel discussion hosted by the Review in 1990, Lin considered political developments in Taiwan through five main viewpoints, naming constitutional reform, the Civic Organizations Law's influence on nascent party politics, the power of public opinion, the legal protection of human rights, and changes in parliamentary structure, primarily the supplementary elections to the Legislative Yuan, as key to democratization in Taiwan. Lin regarded public and special interest groups as part of a politically pluralistic society, as long as such organizations respected norms.{{cite news |title=Transition & Consolidation |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=4&post=4622 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Free China Review |date=1 December 1990}}
Lin was appointed head of Taipei City Government's Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, then subsequently served as deputy mayor of the city between 1997 and 1998. At the age of 47, he was selected to lead the Executive Yuan's Research, Development and Evaluation Commission in 2000, as a member of the Chen Shui-bian presidential administration. As head of the RDEC, Lin supported the building of casinos on Kinmen and Matsu.{{cite news |last1=Huang |first1=Joyce |title=Cabinet agency proposes casinos for Kinmen, Matsu |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2000/12/28/0000067311 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=28 December 2000}} He also claimed that the Chen administration's proposed budget for fiscal year 2001 would save NT$70 billion when compared to the previous government's budget, but Kuomintang lawmaker Yen Ching-piao countered that the Chen government's budget proposal had added NT$95 billion in expenditures compared to the fiscal year 2000 budget.{{cite news |last1=Low |first1=Stephanie |last2=Chu |first2=Monique |title=KMT, New Party sink DPP's 2001 budget proposal |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2000/09/16/0000053475 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=16 September 2000}} In May 2002, Lin inaugurated an online learning platform for public sector employees, as part of a six-year program that sought to make Taiwan a "digitalized state."{{cite news |last1=Ko |first1=Shu-ling |title=Taipei launches cyber-academy for civil servants |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2002/05/11/0000135553 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=11 May 2002}} After Chen Shui-bian won a second presidential term in 2004, Lin was formally sworn in as Minister of Examination on 8 June 2004.{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Chieh-yu |title=Chen swears in Wu, other new top officials |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/06/09/2003174354 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=9 June 2004}}
While serving in the Executive Yuan, Lin continued his advocacy for human rights,{{cite news |title=Editorial: China-Taiwan rights gap tells tale |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2003/11/20/2003076570 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=20 November 2003}} among them the movement of natural persons.{{cite news |title=Make short-term foreign work rules easier, officials say |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/09/06/2003201833 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Taipei Times |agency=Central News Agency |date=6 September 2004}} Opinion pieces written by Lin appeared in the Taipei Times before and after his retirement from public service. In these editorials, Lin disclosed steps taken at the RDEC to gather evidence on the 228 incident, Kaohsiung incident, and other government actions during the martial law era,{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Chia-cheng |title=Government did probe murders |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/10/25/2003384678 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=25 October 2007}} opinions on aspects of governance missing and needed during the 2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions,{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Chia-cheng |title=Political, business elites rule the nation |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2014/08/17/2003597588 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=17 August 2014}} views on the economy of Taiwan,{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Chia-cheng |title=Politicians must boost investment |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2015/06/15/2003620718 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=15 June 2015}} and expressed support for the consolidation of the Examination Yuan.{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Chia-cheng |title=Exam Yuan should be folded into other branch |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2019/04/19/2003713649 |access-date=8 January 2022 |work=Taipei Times |date=19 April 2019}}
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