Representative Behavior of Taiwan\'s Legislators

To achieve this goal, I conducted a survey. This proposal focused on the legislators elected in 1995. Their assistants were respondents, and the survey as based on one legislator, one assistant.

One hundred and thirty-six assistants were interviewed. The successful rate was 90.06%. (The population is 151.) The research findings indicate that individual legislators must have some expectations on their representative role, and hence affect their choices on legislative career, either pay more attention to law-making or to constituency services.

Meanwhile, these expectations are affected by legislators\' party, constituency, and their own political purposes and resources. Furthermore, comparing these influential factors, I find that the factors related to constituency are the most important factors. The legislators whose votes are concentrated on a certain part of the electoral district tend to make more efforts in constituencies.

On the other hand, the legislators whose votes are scattered across the electoral district tend to make more efforts in the Legislative Yuan.