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Identifying Key Regulations through the Analysis of Registered Regulations in Local Governments

  • Journal of Regulation Studies
  • 2020, 29(2), pp.61-94
  • DOI : 10.22954/ksrs.2020.29.2.003
  • Publisher : 한국규제학회
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration
  • Received : December 8, 2020
  • Accepted : December 28, 2020
  • Published : December 31, 2020

SunGwon Ha 1 SongJune Kim 2

1한국생명공학연구원
2경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper explores to find key areas and properties of local government regulations (LGRs) in Korea. It applies text network analysis (TNA) for 34,800 registered regulations from the ‘Regulation Information Portal’ with centrality analysis, sociogram and quasi-network. Both 'National-Urban Development' and 'Environment' are found to be key areas of LGRs. The major words are 'building' for 'National-Urban Development' and 'waste' and 'food' for 'Environment'. They are different between the areas and types, and between the delegated and autonomous regulations. The following policy implications are suggested based on the empirical findings. First, the lead agent of each LGR is necessary to separate clearly because duplicated regulations among the local governments are supposed to hinder local autonomy. Second, the central government is required to cover workforce for making LGRs more reasonable which does not have enough specialty for enforcing them. Third, it is better for the central government to allow local governments to enforce their regulations autonomously within delegation of law which allows local governments to respond the policy demands of locals more efficiently. Fourth, it is required to make efforts to reduce the ‘searching cost’ for regulation standards among local governments. Because the industries subject to regulations have troubles with finding each individual regulation by local governments where they have different standards,

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