« Taiwan Journal of Political Science No.11Publish: 1999/12

A Study on Local Autonomy Supervision of Taiwan County

Author: Chao Yung-Mau

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Referring to the trend of local autonomy, the legislative supervision is the   most   important   autonomy   supervision,   but   under   the   long   time authoritarian    ruling    of    KMT    central    government,    people    always misunderstand   that   administrative   supervision   is   the   main   autonomy supervision.    So that autonomy supervision bodies are use to infringe upon the related local  authorities  on  autonomy  affairs,  despite  of  causing  lots  of disputing  and  conflicts.    In  order  to  avoid  the  over-use  of  local  autonomy supervision,  this  paper  stands  for  that  autonomy  supervision  on  the  county (city) governments should be based on the legislative supervisions, and cuts down  the  administrative  supervision  pressure  as  well,  especially  from  the central government. Due to construct a much more complete county autonomy supervision system,  we  need  to  build  many  more  relieve  system  to  protect  county’s autonomy through the ways of administrative lawsuit process,  great-judges meeting and legislative-yen’s legal proceedings.    According to the German and  French  local  autonomy  systems,  it  seems  needed  to  strengthen  the regional  governments’  supervision  power,  and  demand  to  integrate  the vertical   or  horizontal  cooperation  relations  among  local  governments.   Finally,  it  is  still  necessary  to  open  many  more  citizen  participation  and supervision channels for the county people.

Keywords:administrative supervision、county (city) autonomy、legislative supervision、local autonomy supervision