「立委評鑑」對立委立法行為的影響－一個探索性的研究

This essay probes into whether the ＂legislator-evaluation＂ affected the legislators' legislative behaviors? If it does matter to the legislators, then an interest questions is how they face the dilemma between the ＂legislator-evaluation＂ and ＂constituency service＂? This research combined the methods of in-depth interview and survey on legislators and their assistants, and found: (1) most legislators cared about the legislator-evaluation, but felt unfair; (2) the district legislators, the DPP legislators, those who emphasized on legislative affairs rather than constituency service cared more about the legislator-evaluation; but the DPP legislator felt the evaluation fair more than the KMT. Because most legislators cared about the legislator-evaluation, they introduced many small-scale bills, and signed other's bills as co-sponsors to increase their numbers of bills to elevate their achievement of evaluation. Moreover, some legislators changed their legislative behavior following the result of evaluation. This research affirmed that legislator-evaluation has more or less influence on legislators' legislative behaviors. The image and reelection were the main causes why they concerned the legislator-evaluation. If they receive the positive evaluation, they can broadcast their achievement to their electorate. It seems that the legislators become more earnest in law-making due to the legislator-evaluation. Unfortunately, in the long run, the legislators will concern more with the constituency service, but less with the legislator-evaluation because constituency service was quite important to the legislators. The single-seat electoral system after 2008 makes them motivated in doing more constituency service. It is worthy of conducting follow-up studies in the future.