The Operation Of Taiwan "legislator" Election System And The Legislature

This essay will study two subtopics:the electoral system of Taiwanese legislationcommittee and its legislation function.There is causation between the generation oflegislature structure and the electoral system-------the main factor of the generation.Therefore,the essay will give priority to the study of current legislative electionsystem while the study of the legislative process will be supplementary. Through the three core theories,the people'S sovereignty thought,therepresentative system and the authorization of power,the author analyzed the truemeaning of election-system.related democratic politics,studied various electionsystems(in the democratic countries),which can be divided into three major groups.Among these,the"single non—transferable vote"is now only adopted in Taiwan. By recounting the historical reasons for the generation of the legislative electionsystem,the essay analyzed the outer environment;inner construction and t11eproblems arose in the three different phases of legislative election system.From the1st legislative elections to the GUOMING government'S movement to Taiwart,all tlleseven augmentation of legislators and the election of added legislators held in Taiwan(due to the changing island political environment and international situation),at last,entered intO a bla-nd new political phase一一From 1992 the 2nd to 2001 the 5thlegislative elections,in consequence of the"ending of martial law"and theresignation of the whole old LC. In the function of the legislative election system,the author started from theevaluation of the good and poor election systems,then studied the traits,and analyzedthe strength and weakness in order to argue the need of a complete reform in thecurrent system.Also,it is proposed that the reform should be in the direction of the"'single.seat district,two-vote system",which involving the number of seats,therelining of precincts,the proportion of the non-lined and lined precincts,the termof he legislation committee and the problems of the women guaranty etc.All theseought to be resolved properly. In the self-criticism and refom of the functioning of the legislation committee,the author took apart the relation between the election system and the legislationfunction,the factors affecting the constituents and discussed the cause of the poorconsulting function and efficiency.In addition,the essay studied the interactionbetween the parties in Taiwanese legislation on the pragmatic level and the conferencemechanism in different parties,which plays an important role in the consultingfunction.And Eventually came up with the suggestions aiming at improving theefficiencv of the legislation function including intensifying the function ofprOfessiOnal brain trust,systematizing the consultation between the political partiesin and out of office,establishing the''discontinuity of the legislative assembly"policy,simplifying the standing orders and setting up the"comprehensive legislation"systemetc. Finally the author believed that there must be no delay for the reform of theelectOfal system of Taiwanese legislation committee.And the sole way to enhance theefficiency of the legislative committee is to launch out into the reform in the system;otherwise there is no like hood to break the limitation of it.(Efficiency of thelegislative committee)...