Survey Report on Legal and Political Scholars' and Attorneys' Satisfaction with the Performance of the Incumbent President and Vice President of the Judicial Yuan (First Wave Questionnaire)

I. Survey Samples

The survey was originally planned to cover national attorney representatives, legal scholars, political scholars, judge representatives, and prosecutor representatives. This was intended to fulfill the original research objectives, targeting professionals rather than the general public. While telephone interviews were conducted with national attorney representatives, legal scholars, and political scholars who had available phone records, interviews with judges and prosecutors could not be carried out as their telephone numbers were inaccessible.

From May 1 to May 9, telephone interviews were conducted by Hometown Market Research Company. A total of 219 successful interviews were completed, comprising 95 attorneys, 93 legal scholars, and 31 political scholars. The results of the telephone interviews for these three groups are shown in the table below:

Interview Result	Attorneys	Legal Scholars	Political Scholars
Completed	95	93	31
Refused	8	8	4
Person does not exist	1	17	1
Respondent away before 5/10		5	4
Respondent unavailable	29	37	11
Followed up twice, no answer		105	26
Duplicate		9	2
Total	133	274	79

Sources of the above three sample rosters:

1. There were 133 national attorney representatives, who serve as national representatives of the Taiwan Bar Association. Their names, phone numbers, and other necessary survey data were provided by the Taiwan Bar Association, a participating organization of this Alliance. A total of 95 successful interviews were completed, achieving a high success rate of 71.4%. Unsuccessful cases were mostly due to the respondent being unavailable, accounting for 21.8%. Refusals accounted for only 6%.
2. There were 274 legal scholars, consisting of legal scholars holding positions from assistant professor or assistant research fellow and above across universities nationwide. The respondent roster was compiled by removing duplicates from the Directory of Domestic Legal and Political Scholars edited by the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica. Successful interviews totaled 93, accounting for 33.9% of all samples; there were 105 instances (38.3%) where calls were not answered after two follow-ups. Three percent of the legal scholars declined to be interviewed.
3. There were 79 political scholars, consisting of individuals who hold positions from assistant professor or assistant research fellow and above across universities nationwide, and who teach or research constitutional law, administrative law, or domestic political development. Careful selection based on these criteria from the roster of legal and political scholars provided by the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, yielded only 79 individuals. Successful interviews totaled 31, accounting for 39.2%. Instances where calls were not answered after two follow-ups accounted for 32.9%, and refusals accounted for 5%.

II. Telephone Interview Schedule

Because rosters were organized in batches and delivered to Hometown Research Company, the roster of attorney representatives was handed over first, with surveys beginning on May 1. This was followed by the roster of legal scholars, with surveys beginning on May 2. Due to the more complex and difficult selection process for political scholars, their roster was not delivered to the research company until May 8. Statistics on the number of successful daily interviews are as follows:

Respondent Category	May 1	May 2	May 5	May 6	May 8	May 9	Total
Attorneys	53	22	8	9	2	1	95
Legal Scholars		12	32	36	4	9	93
Political Scholars					28	3	31
Subtotal	53	34	40	45	34	12	219

III. Survey Findings

1. Overall satisfaction with the performance of Judicial Yuan President Weng岳生 (Weng Yueh-sheng) stood at 85% among attorneys and legal/political scholars, while satisfaction with Vice President Cheng Chung-mo was 63%. The President outperformed the Vice President by 23 percentage points, a substantial margin. Attorneys gave the highest overall ratings to both the President and Vice President. Legal scholars scored closely to attorneys, albeit slightly lower, while political scholars gave the lowest ratings—notably, only 45% of political scholars expressed satisfaction with Cheng Chung-mo's performance.
2. This wave of the survey was primarily conducted as preparatory work for evaluating the President's nominees for Grand Justices. At the beginning of the telephone interviews, respondents were consulted regarding their willingness to participate in the evaluation following the President's nominations. As a result, 89 attorney representatives (66% of respondents, 94% of successful interviews), 76 legal scholars (28% of respondents, 82% of successful interviews), and 31 political scholars (39% of respondents, 100% of successful interviews) agreed to participate in the evaluation. Following the President's announcement of the Grand Justice nominees, the Alliance will immediately mail evaluation questionnaires via courier to these 196 individuals who agreed to participate, requesting them to return the questionnaires by courier within three days. The evaluation results will serve as an essential basis and reference for the Alliance's Grand Justice Nominee Evaluation Committee. (A specimen of the evaluation questionnaire is provided in Appendix I)

IV. Statistical Results of the Survey

Table 1: Satisfaction with the Overall Performance of Judicial Yuan President Weng Yueh-sheng

	Attorneys	Legal Scholars	Political Scholars	Total
Number of Satisfied	86	80	23	186
Percentage of Satisfied (%)	87.37	86.02	74.19	84.93
Number of Dissatisfied	9	4	4	17
Percentage of Dissatisfied (%)	9.47	4.3	12.9	7.76
No Opinion / Refused	3	9	4	16
Percentage of No Opinion / Refused (%)	3.16	9.68	12.90	7.31

Table 2: Satisfaction with the Overall Performance of Judicial Yuan Vice President Cheng Chung-mo

	Attorneys	Legal Scholars	Political Scholars	Total
Number of Satisfied	66	57	14	137
Percentage of Satisfied (%)	69.47	61.29	45.16	62.56
Number of Dissatisfied	17	16	9	42
Percentage of Dissatisfied (%)	17.89	17.2	29.03	19.18
No Opinion / Refused	3	6	4	13
Percentage of No Opinion / Refused (%)	3.16	9.45	12.9	5.94

Appendix I: Questionnaire