摘要：虽然中国目前的政治体制为地方政策创新提供了制度空间，但体制的惰性无法使得这些创新得以制度化并持续性发展。
美国汉密尔顿学院政府系的李咏平与与复旦大学管理学院的何晓斌最近在Development and Chnage 杂志发文：Experiments in Inter-Provincial Training of Party and State Managers in China，对中国基层干部到发达地区私企进行“干部打工”现象进行了探讨。政府鼓励公私部门之间的官员流动public-private sector mobility，推行跨省干部流动inter-provincial transfers的政策实验。原文下载：http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/1251722.full.pdf
作者认为，自上而下的政策推行相比，自下而上的政策实验有很多的优势。但在中国，由于单一制的政治体制与地方分权同时并存，中央政府既要强调地方政府的积极性，又要避免地方政府的离心力太强。
研究结果表明，虽然体制内的政策创新对于推动制度变革具有重要意义，但是“干部打工”的首创者无法获得高层支持，仕途往往不顺，使创新后劲乏力，可持续性不强。
Go East, Young Cadre:
Experiments in Inter-Provincial Training of Party and State Managers
Charlotte LeeXiaobin He
Development and Change （Forthcoming）
Abstract
This paper situates China’s local policy experimentation in the broader context of policy experiments in decentralized political systems. It offers a case study of experiments which present a local state response to China’s transition to a market economy. With growing regional and urban-rural inequalities evident after the initial reform period (1978-1994), local party leaders of inland provinces devised strategies for addressing these inequalities and encouraging public-private sector mobility among party officials. County and township-level leaders pursued local policy experiments in which they selected and sent officials to find private sector work in China’s booming coastal cities. Initiated in the 1990s and peaking in the 2000s, these policy experiments and inter-provincial transfers demonstrate the discretion that local officials possess to conduct programmatic/policy experiments in a unitary political system and how officials resort to extra-institutional strategies in order to bridge perceived knowledge gaps. The ultimate demise of these programs illuminates the challenges to extra-institutional policy innovations in transitioning states.