지방정부의 스마트도시 정책도입에 관한 연구 = A Study on Smart City Policy Adoption of Local Government

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to examine which factors affect adoption of Smart City policy of local government in South Korea, which is emerging paradigm as a new urban policy alternative to U-City. To analyze empirically, adoption of Smart City policy is measured by ordinance legislation and establishment of department. Affecting factors are divided into external and internal determinants. External determinants, as diffusion factors, are composed of ratio of ordinance legislation and department establishment of equivalentㆍmetropolitan government.
Using data collected from 2017-2023 of 243 local government, empirical analysis is conducted by Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Event History Analysis with Cox proportional hazards regression. In case of external determinants, the results indicate that horizontal diffusion factor(from county government) affects on department establishment, but there are not significant results on ordinance legislation. In case of internal determinants, administrative and financial factors are the most significant impact on ordinance legislation and department establishment. The findings suggest that it is necessary to design policy which should consider the characteristics of each local government and its alignment with national policy, for supporting local governments facing administrative and financial challenges.