The study of legislator political career path so far has indicated that it can be influenced by legislative resources and local ecology. The legislative resources consists of salary of legislator, assistant¡¦s numbers, time in session , staff and facilities while local ecology depends on faction, party, and opportunity structure. By using of Taipei city council and Kaohsiung city council as study objects, we analyzed the difference of legislator political career, legislative resource and local ecology between Taipei city council and Kaohsiung city council. In conclusion, we found that the legislative resources not only give progress of legislator but also help their development in legislature. Moreover, the faction is also facilitated their development in legislature while party influence contributing higher position of legislator, and their opportunity structure are related the higher office of them.

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Since the declaration of Taiwan Local Self-Government Guidelines, the era of local self-government has launched. Due to the various level of dependence on development among counties and cities in the past, the differences among regions deepened. Besides, under the influences of the political centralization, the urbanization caused by economic development, and the preference on directly governed city region in the term of financial distribution, the distinctive features of the local government have not been fully dominated. Therefore, though the system of local self-government has been implemented for 50 years, the result turns out insignificant under the limitations of laws. In addition, since the Local Government Act was promulgated in 1999, it is considered the important fundamental guideline to fulfill the conclusions of National Development Conference. With the implementation of Local Government Act the county and municipal governments are supposed to be equipped with self-governance laws in the operations of the divisions of personnel, financial affairs, and organizational management, so that they will have abundant resources to exert their functions as self-governments. But six years has passed by since the implementation of Local Government Act, how much does the blueprint of cross-century organization modification law exert its functions ? And what assistance is offered to contribute to the whole development of counties and cities? The answer lies in the voice of self-governments of counties and cities. Based on the above-mentioned grounds, this study has been conducted. This study aims in the discussion of the authorization changes brought by the implementation of Local Government Act. This study plans to set up the implementation as the experimental group, while the situation prior to the implementation as the comparative group. Through the study, it is to be seen whether the implementation of Local Government Act meets the original goal. Tainan City is taken for the example in this case study. Literature review has been conducted in the analysis of the four vital indicators, including the divisions of personnel, organization, financial affairs, and legislature. The impact made on these four divisions are to be discussed. Besides, detailed interview is also the research method. That is, seven municipal councilors and four first-class supervisors are interviewed. Their responses are adopted and analyzed to realize their attitudes toward the reform. How do they feel about the reform? Are there any defects within the reform? Through the experimental survey, the correctness of the above literature review can be examined, and modest modification or reform can be presented properly. On the basis of literature review and the results of conducted interviews, whether the original goals are fulfilled can be proved. Before the implementation of Local Government Act, self-governments have no rights over the matters of personnel, organization, finance and legislature. After the implementation, self-governments turn to have more rights over the matters of personnel, organization, and legislature except over the matters of finance. In conclusion, to enhance self-governance law, fully authorization over financial matters should be offered so that the prosperous future is expected and we will build a better and more vigorous government.

Thesis Abstract In recent years, each county and municipal government and parliament is leading separately by different political parties, form the so-called ¡§ the divided government¡¨ and it has already become normal gradually.This divided pattern is extended from local to the central government after 2000 General Presidential Election.So, as for central or local level, the government pattern built by administrative and legislative department, which no matter is handling by different or the same political party, the implied executive-legislature relations, leadership efficiency and administrative result then become topic and focus that scholars pays close attention to. This text drafts to such divided government¡¦s system in Kaohsiung county, under the situation of most seats controlling long-term by KMT, discussing about the executive-legislature relation in the name of YU Zheng Xian, Yang Qiu Xing, representing of DPP, who take over the county business of Kaohsiung county for 16 years (1993-2009).It is aim to find out, under the few seats of ruling party, the influence between three factors of the political relationship, interests inducement and human feeling, made by the leading strategy which administrative chief uses.Also to inspect if the structure of great power of opposite party, and the reciprocation of leading behaviors of leaders, will influence directly or indirectly the executive-legislature relations, such as like the bad inquiring atmosphere, the deducting budget widely, forcing to lay aside or reject the important bill etc. ¡@¡@In other words, under the inferior position of a few seats kept by a ruling party, the administrative chief¡¦s leading behavior and style seems extremely important.As for YU Zheng Xian, he knows ¡§political art¡¨ and local political ecology very well.He uses many kinds of strategy to achieve political support and cooperation by striving for Congressmen of different parties and he leans to the transactional leadership.However, Yang Qiu Xing is great different from Yu Zheng Xian's leadership style.After Yang Qiu Xing is on board, he is focusing in developing the vision of organizations.He does not like Yu Zheng Xian, using some strategies to trade off benefit with Congressman of different political group.Yang Qiu Xing usually judges people by facts, ot by identity, so he leans to transformational leadership.Hence, what¡¦s the influence both leadership and structure will make in the interaction of executive ¡Vlegislature of Kaohsiung county? This text tries to review, within the era of Yu Zheng Xian and Yang Qiu Xing, by literate description and statistic analysis in using the three important indicators : ¡§the executive-legislature supervising status of inquiring¡¨, ¡§deleting range of annual budge in Kaohsiung county¡¨ and ¡§adopt proportion of bill proposed by Kaohsiung county¡¨. ¡@ The result of study finds, Yu Zheng Xian would like to bend his knees and compromise with the Congressmen, therefore he won¡¦t meet too much obstructions in inquiring atmosphere, bill promotion and budget delet.This should result from his application of transaction leadership behavior.What is interesting is Yang Qiu Xing has different leading style from Yu Zheng Xian's, so have minor difference with the theory in such aspects as budget checking and the bill promotion.Therefore it shows Yang Qiu Xing's leader has not performed its function well, which should be referred to influence by structure of political party.And more, his attitude is relatively tough and has his own personal judgments, he will suffer more obstructions in various than Yu Zheng Xian in the case of lacking benefit interchange with Congressmen. In sum, if the leaders make good use of the leading behavior, regardless of its structure, can cause good executive-legislature interaction, and in promoting bill of different fields will be even relatively smooth.Therefore, the result of study find out that leading behavior do influence the operation of executive-legislature relations.

Investigative powers of Congress is the Congress to obtain the required information, the tool found the truth. Due to the need for legislative decision-making rational, and rational legislative decision-making need to use the logic of scientific method, to take an objective view of the decision for seeking truth from facts, there is no investigative powers, Congress is that the lack of information, difficult to discover the truth of a disadvantage, unable to make the right decisions , will not be able to carry out its terms of reference on the role of function. Compared to democracy in the world's major countries of the development of the investigative power of Congress, the Legislative Yuan may exercise certain power of investigation in 2004 until the beginning by the J.Y. Interpretation No.585 to explain the right of access to the survey. Representative democracies, the United Kingdom is one of the first use of the investigative power of Congress, the United States Department of the investigative power of Congress to develop the most complete system, also the most frequent use of the country, a democratic country by the major development of the investigative power of Congress, know that the investigative power of Congress to essential for Congress to support legislative power, Congress is also an important weapon supervision. However, the exercise of legislative power on behalf of the people in our country of the Legislative Yuan in the future can indeed play with investigative powers to supervise the executive, legislative and other auxiliary functions, there is the establishment of a sound depends on the right of Congress to investigate the mode of operation. In this paper, since the right of Congress to investigate the meaning and nature of the legal basis of the investigative power of Congress to explore the principle behind the system and principles. At the same time by the Democratic National Congress representative survey Overview of the implementation of the right to introduce a system to explore the rights of the Legislative Yuan to investigate the nature and the status quo, the existing access to the Legislative Yuan of the operation of the right to study the document, which on my development of the investigative power of Congress to amend the law. In this study, data collection through literature, the light of our constitutional system with a foreign legal system, and finally developed the following recommendations: 1.The Legislative Yuan investigative power system should be the rule of law, and clearly defined the scope of the exercise of investigative powers, to avoid violation of other constitutional organs of the terms of reference. 2. The introduction of a small number of right( Minderheitsenquete) - in order to learn from the German system. 3. In addition to the exercise of law in the Legislative Yuan to develop terms of reference "of the exercise of investigative powers," a chapter, the new legislation is still to be a peremptory norm of "public hearing", "testimony" of the relevant provisions. 4. Addition of "contempt of Congress" of norms. 5. Be added to a breach of confidentiality provided for the punishment. 6. The Legislative Yuan investigative powers should be fine with more force. 7. Should be determined by the local councils the right to access provisions.

The problem of this study was to determine the degree of Texas Legislative support for public school services to handicapped children not presently being served (birth through two and zero reject). This study has four purposes: To identify trends in respect to educating the handicapped birth through two and zero-reject; To determine State Legislative's attitude with respect to serving; To inform the legislature and educational leaders and familiarize them with the data collected; and to present recommendations to legislators, educators, and agencies of strategies that might be considered in future planning.

Gambling is very controversial theme. There are many reasons, why this business is so controversial,for example : huge amount of money, chance for money laundering, chance for winning money. Gambling is wagering money on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money. Purpose of my diploma work is a comparison situation of gamling industry in Czech republic and in the rest of the world. My diploma work has many parts.In the first one I describe the history of regulation in the United States and then I show economic dates from presents: casino locations by category, casinos per state, commercial casino tax revenue by state and national commercial casino revenue. Next I explain a special american category of casino and it is tribal casino and than I show tribal gaming revenues by region. In the next part I describe the history of gambling in the Czechoslovakia and contemporary situation in Czech republic, especially the situation in internet gambling. Internet gambling is the transformation of casino games of chance and skill to the internet. In the Czech republic is an unsatisfactory legal regualtions, because there is a obsolete rule. Therefore domestic operators can not obtain a licence for offering online gambling services to Czech residents, whereas foreign operators offers these services, but illegal. Therefore is necessary to create a new rule, which will be able to change this unsatisfactory situation. In the next part I write about three big cases, which are important for situation in european gambling industry. European commission and European court of justice have both a big influence and I describe, what they do for better situation in european gambling, because some states ( for example Germany ) prohibit internet gambling on their own territory, but this is problem, because this rule is in discrepancy with law of European union. In Czech republic is internet gambling for foreign company prohibited too and I explain, what is the reason for this situation. This diploma work contains my own research, how works telephone and internet gambling.

This diploma work deals with Technical and operational comparison of aerotaxi aircraft. I picked out this theme because of SkyService company, which plans to locate upon this form of transportation. In diploma work I attend to basic factors that affect selection of aeronautical technics, also economics and technical calculation

Sections 2(3) and 2A of the Wills Act of 1953 were incorporated into the Wills Act in 1992. The purpose of the two sections was to give the court power to condone a document that did not comply with the formalities for making a will and to empower a court to condone a legally ineffective attempt by a testator to revoke his or her will. By introducing section 2(3) and 2A of the Wills Act, the Legislature intended to eliminate the injustice and inequities which frequently resulted from non-compliance with legal requirements. However, after the implementation of the two sections, problems arose with regard to the interpretation and application thereof. This dissertation identifies and analyses the sections to show the current issues which have been discussed in case law and writings by scholars. They are as follows: <ul> (a) Meaning of the word “document” in section 2(3). (b) Meaning of “drafted” by a person who has died since the……drafting thereof. (c) Meaning of “executed” by a person who has died since the….. execution thereof. (d) Should there already be partial compliance with some of the formalities? (e) How does the court conclude that the deceased intended the document to be his will? (f) When must the intention be present? (g) Is a subsequent change in intention (even though it was present at time of making a document) relevant? (h) Interpretation of section 2A. (i) Interaction between section 2(3) and 2A. </ul> Comparing and analysing section 2(3) with a similar provision in Canada and Australia, gives an insight into the problems they encounter and measures that are implemented to achieve the purpose of the provision. Finally, this dissertation will make recommendations regarding the possible alternative wording of the relevant section(s). / Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Private Law / unrestricted

This qualitative study was conducted in a suburban intermountain school district. The research purpose was to (a) solicit narratives from principals about the greatest successes and challenges in American education; (b) conduct deep insightful analysis to find emerging themes from the interviews with principals; and (c) to provide important information for policy and law makers. The findings focused on data collected from interviews asking 25 principals to share perspectives and examples from their work in schools and education in general. The principals were asked about educational successes. Those cited regularly highlighted positive cultures, doing tremendous work with minimal funding, and recent academic achievements (not necessarily high test scores). Commonly mentioned challenges were low family commitment to education, low funding, and recruitment of teachers. Additionally, these building level principals thanked their legislature for supporting schools. The findings have powerful implications for policy and law makers. This study also calls on national pollsters to conduct frequent national surveys of principals.