Research partnerships between scholars and local governments offer promise to advance scholarly understanding of local public administration and to improve the lives of people living and working in local communities. Yet political fragmentation complicates the prospect of broader learning from these partnerships and creates the risk that research partnerships will amplify disparities in local government performance. If scholars and practitioners are attentive to these risks, they can design research to facilitate learning across local government settings. Lessons from policy diffusion, program evaluation, and team science inform a set of recommendations for the conduct of local government research partnerships and the distribution of results.

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在支离破碎的政治环境中向地方政府研究合作伙伴学习

学者与地方政府之间的研究伙伴关系有望促进学术界对地方公共行政的理解，并改善在当地社区生活和工作的人们的生活。然而，政治分裂使从这些伙伴关系中更广泛地学习的前景变得复杂，并产生了研究伙伴关系将扩大地方政府绩效差异的风险。如果学者和从业者关注这些风险，他们可以设计研究以促进跨地方政府环境的学习。政策传播、项目评估和团队科学的经验教训为地方政府研究伙伴关系的开展和结果分配提供了一系列建议。