Government Policy Attention:Issues and Evolution of Multi-level Government Work Reports(2003-2023)in China
In the process of issue identification and policy design,how to rationally allocate policy attention resources is directly related to the government's decision-making results and administrative effectiveness.Useing multi-level government work reports from 2003 to 2023 in China as the research object,this study tries to integrate the attention base view with the actual logic of national governance,taking into account the horizontal and vertical inter-governmental structure of China's government and the dynamic governance situation,and attempts to construct a policy attention analysis framework that comprehensively covers the dimensions of issue,level,time,and region,to comprehensively portray the distribution and change of policy attention.By analyzing 6,086 government work reports,LDA topic model and various statistical methods are used.The results show that economic development issues dominate the distribution of policy attention,and the attention to green development and public service issues is also steadily increasing.Policy attention across different levels of government shows significant covariation trends,and the magnitude of dynamic changes is more significant as the level rises.In the intermittent period of a particular issue,there is an obvious crowding out effect of the focus issue on the policy attention of other issues.In addition,the regional distribution of policy attention shows obvious heterogeneity,and some issues also show proximity effects.
Policy AttentionAttention Base ViewGovernment Work ReportLDA Topic Model