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Learning from Local Government Research Partnerships in a Fragmented Political Setting
Author(s) -
Mullin Megan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.13395
Subject(s) - local government , politics , government (linguistics) , public relations , public administration , political science , fragmentation (computing) , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , law , operating system
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.