Handbook on city and regional leadership: edited by Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer, Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar Publishing, Research Handbooks in Urban Studies series, 2021, 384 pp., £130.50 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 78897 967 2; £48.00 (eBook), eISBN 978 1 78897 968 9. The eBook version is priced from £22/$31 from Google Play, ebooks.com and other eBook vendors, while in the print the book can be ordered from the Edward Elgar Publishing online bookshop

The eBook version is priced from £22/$31 from Google Play, ebooks.com and other eBook vendors, while in the print the book can be ordered from the Edward Elgar Publishing online bookshop The five actor types that make up the concept of place leadership, i.e. managerial, political, civic, academic and business actors (7-8) are further described without neglecting the leadership role of civic actors in rural areas or the way in which formal and informal domains of authority interact. In Chapter 1, the editors claim that "leadership is a challenging subject of study", as everyone knows more or less "what good leadership is like, or what the basic features of bad leadership are" (2). [Extracted from the article]