Academics have characterized today's political quagmire as an aftereffect of the constitutional revisions jointly engineered by the KMT and DPP in 1997.
有學者指出，今天各式各樣的政治困局，可以說是一九九七年國、民兩黨聯手修憲的後遺症，當初主其事者堅稱「雙首長制」最為可行，設計上卻以執政黨為當然多數政黨，一旦執政黨成為少數黨，總統、行政院、立法院三角關係便不能等距平衡，乃有今日「全民政府」與政黨政府的爭議。