| Summary: | 碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 公共事務學系碩士班 === 97 === This study mainly investigated the following issues: First of all, in order to obtain some inspirations and measures from foreign congressional assistant systems as a reference for the reform of the domestic system, this study first probed into the systems adopted in the US, Japan, UK, and France. Through comparative analysis, the background, design, and implementation of these systems were analyzed and compared with the domestic system of public-financed assistants of the Legislative Yuan. Since there have been an electoral reform, reduction of legislative seats by half, and demands for more public-financed assistants, the implementation and operation of the domestic system of public-financed assistants of the Legislative Yuan were investigated, including the advantages and disadvantages of the system, feasibility of systemization, and issues that may derive before formation of a system. Besides, incentives for the public-financed assistants, their future career, and the impact on their political career were also empirically examined through interviews. Finally, based on the findings of the above two issues, suggestions on improvement of the current system of public-financed assistants of the Legislative Yuan were proposed as a reference on future amendment of related laws.
The research was mainly based on in-depth interview and assisted by literature survey and comparative research. As the system of the public-financed assistants of the Legislative Yuan is a dynamic system and constantly affected by the interactions among members of the Legislative Yuan, many dynamic information and contexts might not be fully presented in static data, and the practical situations might not be easily realized without involvement in this system. For this reason, data should be extracted through in-depth interviews and compared with findings obtained from research and literature analysis to clarify the development and dynamics of the system. Therefore, people with practical experiences of the system, including public-financed assistants of the Legislative Yuan, experts or scholars with experience of being a congressional assistant, and legislative staff were interviewed and researched with viewpoints of the legislators also considered.
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