DIFFERENCES IN LEARNING PRACTICES AND VALUES IN NORTHSOUTH CITY PARTNERSHIPS: TOWARDS A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF MUTUALITY
DIFFERENCES IN LEARNING PRACTICES AND VALUES IN NORTHSOUTH CITY PARTNERSHIPS: TOWARDS A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF MUTUALITY
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10.1002/pad.1622
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Bontenbal, Marike C.
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作者：
Bontenbal, Marike C.
这篇文章讨论了南北地方政府之间的结对，为过去十年本杂志关于制度结对的论述做出了贡献。通过城市间合作结构，地方政府越来越多地被认为是国际发展合作的相关行为者，这被称赞为地方政府能力建设的有效机制。本文讨论了北方和南方结对的参与者的学习实践和新知识受到重视和采用的程度，以及学习是否互惠互利。在一项关于荷兰市政当局与秘鲁、南非和尼加拉瓜伙伴城市之间的三个伙伴关系的研究中，采访了36名参与者。研究结果显示，在城市间的伙伴关系中学习在南北之间并不是相互的，共享学习的好处是有限的，这是结对话语中常用的修辞。相反，北方城市的其他互惠机会来自政治和战略利益，如工作人员的忠诚度和积极性。因此，与单独学习相比，结对中的相互作用应该得到更广泛的解释，这样就可以确定并最大化结对的好处，让城市保持兴趣和动力。版权所有(C)2012 John Wiley&Sons，Ltd.
This article addresses twinning between local governments in North and South, contributing to the past decade's discourse on institutional twinning in this journal. Local governments have increasingly become recognised as relevant actors in international development cooperation through city-to-city cooperation structures, which have been praised as an effective mechanism for local government capacity building. This article discusses the learning practices and the extent to which new knowledge is valued and adopted by twinning participants in both North and South and moreover whether learning benefits are mutual. In a study of three partnerships between Dutch municipalities and partner cities in Peru, South Africa and Nicaragua, 36 participants were interviewed. The findings reveal that learning in city-to-city partnerships is not mutual between North and South and that the benefits of shared learning'a rhetoric commonly used in the twinning discourseare limited. Instead, other opportunities for mutuality arise for Northern municipalities from political and strategic benefits, such as staff loyalty and motivation. Mutuality in twinning hence deserves a broader interpretation than learning alone so that twinning benefits can be identified and maximised for both North and South, keeping cities interested and motivated. Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.