国家治理政府注意力指数构建及其应用——基于新闻文本的测度

Abstract

Advancing the modernization of national governance involves the modernization of both the national governance system and governance capacity. In order to achieve the long-term goal of modernization of China's governance, according to the theory of government attention allocation, the government needs to maintain considerable attention to the construction of national governance, so it is of great significance to measure the government's attention to the construction of national governance effectively, but the government's attention has such problems as being unobservable. This paper proposes a specific LDA model for extracting topic-specific text information, and takes official media such as People's Daily, Guangming Daily and the text transcripts of CCTV News Broadcasts as the corpus, constructs for the first time a government attention index for national governance based on news texts, effectively measures the attention invested by the government in the field of national governance. Based on this index, the governance effect and information effect of government attention are empirically studied. The study finds that: the specific LDA model can be refined to obtain a purer directed LDA attention, and does not need to be given the number of topics, does not overly rely on manually constructed dictionaries, and does not need to be manually audited; the government attention index of China's governance based on the news texts can better reflect the changes in the government's attention to the modernization of China's governance; the government's attention can be effectively translated into the improvement of the governance effectiveness, and the government's publicity through the official media can also effectively drive the public's attention to national governance. The measurement and study of government attention for national governance can speed up the communication and realization of the concept of modernization of national governance, and provide support for the progressing of the modernization of China's governance.