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Exploring Policy Changes and Institutional Constraints - Focus on the Applicability of Text Analysis -

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2020, 16(10), pp.83-98
  • DOI : 10.14251/crisisonomy.2020.16.10.83
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general
  • Received : August 31, 2020
  • Accepted : September 22, 2020
  • Published : October 31, 2020

Ko Ki Dong 1 EUNMI LEE 2

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2국민대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study focuses on describing the phenomena in which policies varying over time appear as gentle changes when viewed from a long-term perspective through a new institutional lens using text analysis. This research analyzes the economic policy direction announced by the South Korean government over the past 25 years. Based on infrequently-used discretionary words in the policy documents, temporary and partial changes were found in economic policy direction every year, which indicated that the economic policy direction in South Korea has been adapted flexibly to political situations and policy environment established by each presidency. On the other hand, high-frequency words in policy documents played a role in forming and maintaining the fundamental trajectory and framework of the economic policy directions under institutional constraints, and such changes were found to be stable. With respect to changes in policy documents, the duality of the Zipf distribution expressed both variability and stability at the same time. The main contribution of this study is to explore the possibility of comprehensively explaining both institutional constraints and policy changes using text analysis.

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