What explains mayors’ collaboration with nongovernmental organizations in delivering public goods and services? While some successful collaborations are established, in other cases the call for NGOs to coordinate with governments goes unheeded. Collaboration minimizes the duplication of effort, maximizes information sharing, and builds capacity. Given the scholarly consensus on the importance of collaboration, we know little about it at local levels, where it may matter most. This article focuses on Bolivia, a country with deep decentralization reforms and an active NGO sector. It utilizes survey data on mayors from 2007 to provide insight into the variation in NGO–local government collaboration across a country. It argues that political context is important: mayoral turnover, greater community group engagement, and more municipal resources deter collaboration. The findings illustrate the strategic interplay between state and nonstate actors and explain the uneven geographies of partnerships in governance.

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相处或独行：了解玻利维亚地方政府与非政府组织之间的合作

什么解释了市长与非政府组织在提供公共产品和服务方面的合作？虽然建立了一些成功的合作，但在其他情况下，非政府组织与政府协调的呼吁却被忽视了。协作最大限度地减少重复工作，最大限度地共享信息，并建立能力。鉴于学术界对合作重要性的共识，我们在地方层面对此知之甚少，而这可能最重要。本文重点关注玻利维亚，一个进行深入的权力下放改革和活跃的非政府组织部门的国家。它利用 2007 年对市长的调查数据，深入了解全国非政府组织与地方政府合作的变化。它认为政治背景很重要：市长更替、更大的社区团体参与、更多的市政资源阻碍了合作。研究结果说明了国家和非国家行为者之间的战略相互作用，并解释了治理伙伴关系的不均衡地域。