| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 104 === One of the domestic-political factors that shape one country’s international relations would be the supervisory of legislature, using its legislative powers on foreign policies to deliberate the bills of foreign affairs and treaties. The main purpose of this thesis is to define these legislative powers of Legislative Yuan during Chen Shui-Bian Government, to understand how Legislative Yuan used these powers to deliberate the bills of foreign affairs and treaties, and to establish the indicators of measuring the effects that Legislative Yuan has on those bills and treaties, even the foreign policies. This thesis also tries to realize the impacts of “Divided Government” on the deliberation of the bills and treaties.
According to the law and the operation of Legislative Yuan, during Chen Shui-Bian Government the legislative powers on the foreign policies that Legislative Yuan had included: partial “broad agenda-setting power” to set the foreign policies; full “narrow agenda-setting power” to set the legislative process of the bills; the amendment, ratification and veto power on the treaties; making proposals of referendums; and related tactics it could use in the legislative process, such as interpellation and consults among different parties. Also, there are three indicators that could be used to measure the effects that Legislative Yuan has on the bills of foreign affairs and treaties, including “the differences between the bills submitted by the executives branch and passed by the legislature,” which is the most important factor to realize the influence of Legislative Yuan; “whether the bills were passed or not,” and “the length of time for the bill to be passed.” Through these indicators, this article found that in this period only few treaties had been amended or made reservation; only two bills were not passed by Legislative Yuan; and almost all bills deliberated by Legislative Yuan didn’t take too much time to pass except the “Arms Procurement Bill.” According to these results, this thesis suggest that the condition of divided government may not necessarily lead to stalemate on bills of foreign affairs, treaties and even foreign policies during Chen Shui-Bian Government, which is more close to the revisionist view of divided Government theories.
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