Structural Change of Policy Networks and Legislative Breakthrough: A 20-Year Discourse Network Analysis of Nursing Legislation in South Korea

Key Points

• The research aims to examine how structural changes in policy networks influence legislative breakthroughs in nursing legislation over two decades.
• Conducted discourse network analysis of nursing legislation
• Analyzed actor network characteristics such as density and centralization
• Investigated changes across ideological divides
• Identified higher density and lower centralization in the actor network during policy breakthroughs
• Observed distributed brokerage roles across different ideological groups
• Provided insights into healthcare advocacy strategies amid professional conflicts

Abstract