Policy Research Trends of the local government through Keyword Network Analysis

Abstract

The local government produces many policy researches for decision making in various fields of the city. This research aims to analyze policy researches of the local government for classify policy trend and feature of the local government. The analysis of policy research trends is based on keyword network analysis with phased process such as subject classification, network analysis, trend analysis, and implementation analysis. The case of analysis, Goyang city, has managed many research projects, which shows steadily enlarging budgets and number of researches. There are total of 243 researches has been finalized from 2011 to 2017. This paper is based on a practical research which helps to understand overall tendency of policy researches and managements on the local government. It would be value to propose a general process to analyze whole policy researches under the local government that helps to understand a trend of the local government policy and show an improvement direction of policy management and application.