Analysis and Reflection on the Characteristics of Smart Community Policies in China from the Perspective of Policy Tools
[Purpose/significance]Policy tools are the keys to achieving policy objectives.Analyzing the characteristics of smart com-munity policies from the perspective of policy tools is of great significance to the formulation of smart community policy systems and regulatory systems in the new era.[Method/process]By building a three-dimensional framework of"policy structure-policy tools-policy theme",and using text measurement,social network analysis,content analysis,and LDA topic model,we systematically ana-lyzed 106 central policy texts from 2012 to 2022.[Result/conclusion]China's central policies show a phased growth in release volume and a diversification of release entities;In the application of policy tools,it tends to use symbol and exhortation tools as well as capacity-building tools;The compatibility between policy tools and policy themes needs to be enhanced.It is recommended to further improve the policy system of smart communities,promote cooperation among multiple entities,optimize the structural configuration of policy tools,and strengthen the compatibility between policy tools and policy themes.[Innovation/limitation]Using policy combina-tion analysis method,both structural and content attributes of policies were studied,providing theoretical references for future formula-tion of scientific policies.However,we did not conduct research on the differences and connections between central and local policies,nor the effectiveness of policy implementation,which will serve as a direction for future efforts.