國立臺灣大學政治科學論叢

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The session system consists of regular meeting, extension session, and extraordinary  meeting.  In  session  time,  parliaments  or  councils  have  legal power  to  assemble  and  resolve  proposed  laws.  Session  norms  of  local councils  in  federal  system  are  more  divergent  than  in  unitary  system.  In Taiwan, the Legislative Yuan passed the Local System Law in January 1999, before   that   the   session   system   of   local   councils   was   not   legalized. Furthermore,  these  norms  set  by  directive  were  very  rigid  and  inflexible, local  governments  had  little  autonomy.  Because  this  new  law  slightly reduces  the  extension  session  of  tiers  of  local  councils,  it  leads  to  some political disputes against centralism. This  article  reviews  concepts  of  session  system,  induces  the  norm evolution, describes the session practices of six local councils. According to such  studies,  the  author  finds  out  there  are  obvious  inertia  and  defects  in every  annual  session  of  local  councils.  But,  it  will  fall  into  the  dilemma between  decentralization  and  supervision  when  proposes  an  amendment  of local self-government.