이명박 정부의 지방자치분야 2년 정책추진과정평가와 향후 방향

A Study on Evaluating the Local Autonomy Policy Agends of the Lee Myung Bak Administration

This paper aims to examine what policy issues have primarily been adopted in the filed of local autonomy since Lee Myung Bak Administration took office in 2008, to evaluate what achievements they have made, and to put forward policy implications for central government to take into consideration in making decisions about policy agenda to be addressed. In doing so, it employes Network Text Analysis Method to derive key words written in the papers presented for two years from 2008 to 2009 in KALA(Korean Association for Local Autonomy), which is a representative academic society dealing with local government issues in Korea. And also, it adopts AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) method to prioritise the future policy agenda regarding local government and suggests a couple of policy ideas which can be applied at central level.