In various case studies across Europe the vital role of rural place leadership in enabling a place-based approach to local and regional development has been highlighted, although not always explicitly addressed as such. This paper aims to do so by reviewing the findings from a selection of earlier research projects within a framework of the role of rural leadership in place-based development. Building on the increasing body of literature on place leadership, the review reveals how place leadership in rural areas is performed by varied public, private and civic actors; is able to bridge vested stakes and make new connections; is supportive to joint learning and innovation and an increasing range of bottom-up grassroots initiatives. Effective rural place leadership initiates joint reflection and enforces a collaborative spirit resulting in an expanding spiral of new alliances and new (institutional) arrangements. This underpins the importance of rural place leadership in building collective agency and its capacity to better attune the institutional setting to the specificities of place and thus enhance place-based development.

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领导在地方发展和建立体制安排中的作用。

在欧洲各地的各种案例研究中，都强调了农村地方领导在实现基于地方的方法来促进本地和区域发展中的关键作用，尽管并非总是如此明确地指出。本文旨在通过在农村领导在地方发展中的作用的框架内回顾一些早期研究项目的发现来做到这一点。在关于地方领导的文献不断增加的基础上，本综述揭示了农村地区的地方领导如何由各种公共，私人和公民行为者来执行；能够弥合既得利益并建立新的联系；支持联合学习和创新以及越来越多的自下而上的基层倡议。有效的农村领导层引发了共同的反思，并增强了协作精神，导致新联盟和新（机构）安排的螺旋式扩张。这突出了农村地方领导机构在建立集体代理机构中的重要性，以及其更好地使制度环​​境适应地方特点并从而促进地方发展的能力。