Leading Policy Acts Detection and COVID-19 Countermeasure Legislation’s Impact Evaluation: Legal Code Citation Network Analysis on the Health and Welfare Policies

Abstract

Through the legal code citation network analysis, we categorized the leading policy acts from the Korean health and welfare laws, provided the future legislative plans, and confirmed the COVID-19 Countermeasure legislation’s impact on the structure of the laws. We found that the high statutes are evenly reflected in each policy area and overall matched to the Ministry of Health and Welfare organization. In line with the results of previous studies, we identified through the Louvain method that the legislation is clustered around each policy area. Furthermore, we evaluated the COVID-19 countermeasure legislation’s impact as limited because the acts were only influential in related laws.