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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
@rodriguez-pose.bsky.social
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Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is a professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science and former head of its Department of Geography and Environment (2006-2009). .. more

Economics 56%
Political science 32%
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 5h
#Democracy thins at the edges when the state withdraws from places. #Hospitals closed, courthouses moved, what begins as an efficiency drive ends in alienation.
Fregoni & Leonardi's @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper links institutional retreat to #populism. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 1d
@pervencheberes.bsky.social reminded #Brussels that #cohesion isn’t a pot of money but a pact including all Europeans.
Strip it into national envelopes and the #EU forfeits the politics that sustain it. Europe works best when every citizen participates. multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/fr/webstream...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 2d
Local government, cast as the frail limb of the federal body, proved startlingly resilient throughout #austerity.
Xu & Warner show in @urbanstudiesjournal.com how #local #government pragmatism trumped #ideology, revealing a #geography of strain and stamina. doi.org/10.1177/0042...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 3d
Recognition, like #citations, is an imperfect mirror but a flattering one. To be listed among @Clarivate's 260 #HighlyCited Researchers across all Social Sciences for the sixth time is a nod to shared labour, intellectual kinship & ideas that still matter.
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 6d
Europe’s cohesion falters less from funding gaps than from uneven competence and weak institutions.
As Wajid Ali, Brasili and Calia argue in @jcms-eu.bsky.social, European investment lifts the economy only where #institutions can carry it.
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 10d
#Euroscepticism is sold as cost-free dissent, yet its price is paid in slower #growth & #jobs & dimmer prospects.
As highlighted in @voxeu.org, voters’ grievances are real but the remedy prescribed carries its own economic harm.
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 11d
#Europe’s prosperity hinges less on shiny sectors than on building on its #skills & potential base.
As Tessarin, @ronboschma.bsky.social, @lideyu.bsky.social & Petralia show in @cjres.bsky.social, #regions thrive when dense, high-skill ecosystems reinforce themselves.
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Regional development traps in Europe: a study of occupational trajectories of regions
Abstract. This paper presents an evolutionary perspective on regional development traps that centres around the structural inability of regions to develop
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 17d
#Europe’s future won’t be forged in #capitals alone. It lies in Mainz, Skellefteå or Arteixo. Yet, these places are falling through the cracks: too rich for cohesion, too dull for #innovation strategies. Centralisation is not the #EU’s best strategy
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 18d
Turns out #governance matters more than growth when Russian tanks arrive. In a fascinating new @econgeog-journal.bsky.social of two occupied towns in #Ukraine, Grillitsch, Cabral Cobos & Horvat show that transparency & civic engagement are the key to recovery & #resilience. doi.org/10.1080/0013...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 19d
A continent that once bound regions together, tethering Brussels to its citizens, may soon devolve into national silos.
As @profgviesti.bsky.social warns, #cohesion is slow and imperfect, but it is shared & democratic.
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 20d
Read my commentary in European Urban and Regional Studies on the EU budget proposal. #Brussels sells centralisation as “efficiency.” But it risks silencing the very local voices that make Europe whole, turning European #citizens from shapers of #Europe into mere spectators.
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 22d
Natural disasters test not just nature’s force but Europe’s governance.
Next Tuesday Eric Neumayer, Maria Dolores Pitarch Garrido and I will ask: why do some regions recover while others decline?
Chaired by Simona Iammarino
🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/canada-blanc...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 23d
Is the notion of ‘left-behind’ regions is yesterday’s diagnosis? For Bassens, Froud, Johal & Williams in
@dialogueshg.bsky.social, security is no longer the preserve of the middle-class postcode. Foundational precarity is now the daily lot of many even in rich places.
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 24d
The vanguard of the #UK’s #climate #transition lies not in #Westminster but in places like #Lancaster, #Renfrewshire & North #Kesteven.
Golubchikov, Shahab & Haupt show in Applied Geography what strategic will in the periphery can achieve in terms of #NetZero.
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