Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
@rodriguez-pose.bsky.social
Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.
#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...
Fregoni & Leonardi's @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper links institutional retreat to #populism. doi.org/10.1080/0034...
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
#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...
Fregoni & Leonardi's @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper links institutional retreat to #populism. doi.org/10.1080/0034...
@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...
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...
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
@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...
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...
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...
Xu & Warner show in @urbanstudiesjournal.com how #local #government pragmatism trumped #ideology, revealing a #geography of strain and stamina. doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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...
Xu & Warner show in @urbanstudiesjournal.com how #local #government pragmatism trumped #ideology, revealing a #geography of strain and stamina. doi.org/10.1177/0042...
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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November 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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.
clarivate.com/highly-cited...
clarivate.com/highly-cited...
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.
doi.org/10.1111/jcms...
As Wajid Ali, Brasili and Calia argue in @jcms-eu.bsky.social, European investment lifts the economy only where #institutions can carry it.
doi.org/10.1111/jcms...
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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.
doi.org/10.1111/jcms...
As Wajid Ali, Brasili and Calia argue in @jcms-eu.bsky.social, European investment lifts the economy only where #institutions can carry it.
doi.org/10.1111/jcms...
#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.
cepr.org/voxeu/column... publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
As highlighted in @voxeu.org, voters’ grievances are real but the remedy prescribed carries its own economic harm.
cepr.org/voxeu/column... publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
#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.
cepr.org/voxeu/column... publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
As highlighted in @voxeu.org, voters’ grievances are real but the remedy prescribed carries its own economic harm.
cepr.org/voxeu/column... publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
#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.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
As Tessarin, @ronboschma.bsky.social, @lideyu.bsky.social & Petralia show in @cjres.bsky.social, #regions thrive when dense, high-skill ecosystems reinforce themselves.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
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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November 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
#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.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
As Tessarin, @ronboschma.bsky.social, @lideyu.bsky.social & Petralia show in @cjres.bsky.social, #regions thrive when dense, high-skill ecosystems reinforce themselves.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
#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
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
doi.org/10.1080/0034...
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
doi.org/10.1080/0034...
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#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
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
doi.org/10.1080/0034...
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
doi.org/10.1080/0034...
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...
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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...
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.
eticaeconomia.it/una-scompars...
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
doi.org/10.1080/0034...
As @profgviesti.bsky.social warns, #cohesion is slow and imperfect, but it is shared & democratic.
eticaeconomia.it/una-scompars...
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
doi.org/10.1080/0034...
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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.
eticaeconomia.it/una-scompars...
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
doi.org/10.1080/0034...
As @profgviesti.bsky.social warns, #cohesion is slow and imperfect, but it is shared & democratic.
eticaeconomia.it/una-scompars...
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
doi.org/10.1080/0034...
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.
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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.
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
doi.org/10.1177/0969...
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...
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...
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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...
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...
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.
doi.org/10.1177/2043...
@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.
doi.org/10.1177/2043...
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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.
doi.org/10.1177/2043...
@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.
doi.org/10.1177/2043...
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.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
Golubchikov, Shahab & Haupt show in Applied Geography what strategic will in the periphery can achieve in terms of #NetZero.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
November 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
Golubchikov, Shahab & Haupt show in Applied Geography what strategic will in the periphery can achieve in terms of #NetZero.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
Policy #reform should renew, not just replicate.
My new @cjres.bsky.social paper with Han Wang uncovers that reforms lead to sharp rises in new #firm registrations, with the biggest gains accruing in #cities with weaker starting conditions.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
My new @cjres.bsky.social paper with Han Wang uncovers that reforms lead to sharp rises in new #firm registrations, with the biggest gains accruing in #cities with weaker starting conditions.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
Institutional reform, path development and firm creation: evidence from China
Abstract. This paper examines whether and how government-led institutional changes can reshape regional industrial development trajectories. Using quarterl
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November 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Policy #reform should renew, not just replicate.
My new @cjres.bsky.social paper with Han Wang uncovers that reforms lead to sharp rises in new #firm registrations, with the biggest gains accruing in #cities with weaker starting conditions.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
My new @cjres.bsky.social paper with Han Wang uncovers that reforms lead to sharp rises in new #firm registrations, with the biggest gains accruing in #cities with weaker starting conditions.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
Reposted by Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Thank you very much, @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social, for the inaugural lecture of the @ucm.es
Geography PhD program. A highly relevant topic and a fantastic presentation!
#Europe #Euroscepticism #growth @gge-age.bsky.social @age-geografia.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social
Geography PhD program. A highly relevant topic and a fantastic presentation!
#Europe #Euroscepticism #growth @gge-age.bsky.social @age-geografia.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Thank you very much, @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social, for the inaugural lecture of the @ucm.es
Geography PhD program. A highly relevant topic and a fantastic presentation!
#Europe #Euroscepticism #growth @gge-age.bsky.social @age-geografia.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social
Geography PhD program. A highly relevant topic and a fantastic presentation!
#Europe #Euroscepticism #growth @gge-age.bsky.social @age-geografia.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social
Who’s the GOAT: #Messi or #Ronaldo? It depends: do you value flawless execution or redefining team #productivity?
Cordero & Santin ask in Omega the real question: "who made their team better?" and offer a model that captures the contrast.
Find the answer here: doi.org/10.1016/j.om...
Cordero & Santin ask in Omega the real question: "who made their team better?" and offer a model that captures the contrast.
Find the answer here: doi.org/10.1016/j.om...
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Who’s the GOAT: #Messi or #Ronaldo? It depends: do you value flawless execution or redefining team #productivity?
Cordero & Santin ask in Omega the real question: "who made their team better?" and offer a model that captures the contrast.
Find the answer here: doi.org/10.1016/j.om...
Cordero & Santin ask in Omega the real question: "who made their team better?" and offer a model that captures the contrast.
Find the answer here: doi.org/10.1016/j.om...
Para los que se quieran pasar por la Fundación Ramón Areces esta tarde.
La #soledad tiene dos caras: la elegida, que fomenta autonomía y dinamismo; y la sentida, que frena la innovación y desgaja la sociedad. De este frágil equilibrio pende el bienestar.
Hablaré del contraste en la @fundacionareces.bsky.social
Jueves 30 oct, 19:00
www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionare...
Hablaré del contraste en la @fundacionareces.bsky.social
Jueves 30 oct, 19:00
www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionare...
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Para los que se quieran pasar por la Fundación Ramón Areces esta tarde.
The #DutchElections offered Europe a rare reprieve. The #Netherlands did not lurch to extremes but revolted against chaos. The #D66 liberals surged but #GeertWilders' PVV remains a formidable force.
The question now: can the centre earn its second chance?
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
The question now: can the centre earn its second chance?
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
October 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM
The #DutchElections offered Europe a rare reprieve. The #Netherlands did not lurch to extremes but revolted against chaos. The #D66 liberals surged but #GeertWilders' PVV remains a formidable force.
The question now: can the centre earn its second chance?
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
The question now: can the centre earn its second chance?
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
In #Europe some regions are sprinting towards net zero, others remain mired in the footprints of an industrial past. @bourdinseb.bsky.social & Perrot in @cjres.bsky.social show that #decarbonisation demands diversification, institutional grit & a refusal to tread old paths.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
In #Europe some regions are sprinting towards net zero, others remain mired in the footprints of an industrial past. @bourdinseb.bsky.social & Perrot in @cjres.bsky.social show that #decarbonisation demands diversification, institutional grit & a refusal to tread old paths.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
#Entrepreneurship flourishes not in chaos, but in places where the rules are clear and agencies predictable.
Han Wang & I find in our new @cjres.bsky.social article that better #business environments seed #innovation.
Good #institutions are the best industrial policy.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
Han Wang & I find in our new @cjres.bsky.social article that better #business environments seed #innovation.
Good #institutions are the best industrial policy.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
October 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
#Entrepreneurship flourishes not in chaos, but in places where the rules are clear and agencies predictable.
Han Wang & I find in our new @cjres.bsky.social article that better #business environments seed #innovation.
Good #institutions are the best industrial policy.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
Han Wang & I find in our new @cjres.bsky.social article that better #business environments seed #innovation.
Good #institutions are the best industrial policy.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
Thirty years ago today, I first walked into the LSE, nervous, smooth-faced & unsure whether I'd last the three years of my contract, to start a new life.
The LSE —a place that can simultaneously fascinate & frustrate but ultimately fulfil— has shaped me as a person.
For that, I am deeply grateful.
The LSE —a place that can simultaneously fascinate & frustrate but ultimately fulfil— has shaped me as a person.
For that, I am deeply grateful.
October 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Thirty years ago today, I first walked into the LSE, nervous, smooth-faced & unsure whether I'd last the three years of my contract, to start a new life.
The LSE —a place that can simultaneously fascinate & frustrate but ultimately fulfil— has shaped me as a person.
For that, I am deeply grateful.
The LSE —a place that can simultaneously fascinate & frustrate but ultimately fulfil— has shaped me as a person.
For that, I am deeply grateful.
Innovation doesn’t thrive under suspicion, but the chill of the political extremes is seeping into Europe’s labs. As Zhuoying You, Peter Teirlinck & I show in Research Policy, where support for the political extremes rises, #research & #innovation weaken.
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
October 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Innovation doesn’t thrive under suspicion, but the chill of the political extremes is seeping into Europe’s labs. As Zhuoying You, Peter Teirlinck & I show in Research Policy, where support for the political extremes rises, #research & #innovation weaken.
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
Grants may not be the best way for left-behind places to thrive. They need institutions that stay.
Mita Marra, in Sustainability, recasts #universities as civic #infrastructure: educators, translators & conveners, not mere transmitters of imported know-how
doi.org/10.3390/su17...
Mita Marra, in Sustainability, recasts #universities as civic #infrastructure: educators, translators & conveners, not mere transmitters of imported know-how
doi.org/10.3390/su17...
October 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Grants may not be the best way for left-behind places to thrive. They need institutions that stay.
Mita Marra, in Sustainability, recasts #universities as civic #infrastructure: educators, translators & conveners, not mere transmitters of imported know-how
doi.org/10.3390/su17...
Mita Marra, in Sustainability, recasts #universities as civic #infrastructure: educators, translators & conveners, not mere transmitters of imported know-how
doi.org/10.3390/su17...
#Europe’s periphery is no longer chasing the core but composing its own future. Anabela Santos & @conteandrea.bsky.social in Global Challenges and Regional Studies, show how #green #growth is emerging #region by region.
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
October 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#Europe’s periphery is no longer chasing the core but composing its own future. Anabela Santos & @conteandrea.bsky.social in Global Challenges and Regional Studies, show how #green #growth is emerging #region by region.
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...