Fostering cooperation among local stakeholders is a core aim of place-based policies, and it can generate economic benefits and help restore a sense of agency in left-behind communities. However, relatively little is known about how to induce local cooperation in low-trust, institutionally weak areas. This article develops an integrated theoretical framework to help diagnose the precise obstacles to cooperation faced in different types of adverse settings. Such a diagnosis can help design tailored local- and macro-level policies to address the obstacles to local cooperation. The utility of the proposed framework is demonstrated using a medium-n comparative case study design.

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分散的落后经济体地方合作的障碍：综合框架

促进当地利益相关者之间的合作是地方政策的核心目标，它可以产生经济效益并有助于恢复留守社区的主体意识。然而，对于如何在信任度低、制度薄弱的地区促进地方合作，人们知之甚少。本文开发了一个综合的理论框架，以帮助诊断在不同类型的不利环境中面临的精确合作障碍。这样的诊断有助于设计量身定制的地方和宏观政策，以解决地方合作的障碍。使用中n比较案例研究设计证明了所提出框架的实用性。