外文文献： 在区域经济发展的公众领袖.pdfVIP

Paper to be presented at the 40th European Congress of the Regional Science Association, st Barcelona, August 29 – September 1 2000. Draft * Garri Raagmaa PUBLIC LEADERS IN REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Some people say theres no use to change the world. But if we dont try, will it change? Jonathan Mann, 1947-1989 ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the role of public leaders in regional economic development from a community-building point of view. According to the basic hypothesis and being inspired by the chaos theory, we argue that leaders have decisive roles during unstable periods or chaos in a society when a very small fluctuation may qualitatively change the direction of development. Our second point here is that leaders will always be in key positions on economic peripheries where a general lack of human resources and a thin institutional thickness exist. The theoretical discussion refers to Weber’s/Schmalenbachs “emotional community”/“Bund” concepts and Gumilev’s theory of ethnogenesis and tries to plant these approaches within the present day framework. The empirical case study describes a perfect leadership and a successful community-building process in Emmaste Comm