Normative expectations of government as a policy actor: the case of UK steel industry decarbonisation
The literature on technological expectations finds these to be performative: mobilising, coordinating and directing investment and decision-making. Expectations can involve conditionality and be normative, empirical or realist; that is, they may concern what should happen or what is considered likel...
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| author | Pepa Ambrosio-Albala Paul J. Upham William F. Gale |
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| description | The literature on technological expectations finds these to be performative: mobilising, coordinating and directing investment and decision-making. Expectations can involve conditionality and be normative, empirical or realist; that is, they may concern what should happen or what is considered likely. Expectations may also be of a form involving conditionality. Here we examine the interrelated role of normative, empirical and conditional expectations, their function in managing expectations relating to techno-science policy, and their implications for how stakeholders state that they perceive their agency and locus of control. Looking at UK steel industry decarbonisation, we show how stakeholders direct both their normative expectations and direct their locus of control towards the Government, as a form of strategic positioning. Commercial actors state the policy responses that they expect of the UK government mostly relate to reducing costs. We comment on actors’ arguably strategic appeals to normative expectations that displace responsibility from themselves, and the Government's potential role in terms of intervention. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-362c2d15c30e40989bebbc17598eda232023-09-20T10:45:15ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Sustainable Energy1478-64511478-646X2023-12-0142159461110.1080/14786451.2023.22179482217948Normative expectations of government as a policy actor: the case of UK steel industry decarbonisationPepa Ambrosio-Albala0Paul J. Upham1William F. Gale2Univerity of LeedsUniversity of GroningenUniverity of LeedsThe literature on technological expectations finds these to be performative: mobilising, coordinating and directing investment and decision-making. Expectations can involve conditionality and be normative, empirical or realist; that is, they may concern what should happen or what is considered likely. Expectations may also be of a form involving conditionality. Here we examine the interrelated role of normative, empirical and conditional expectations, their function in managing expectations relating to techno-science policy, and their implications for how stakeholders state that they perceive their agency and locus of control. Looking at UK steel industry decarbonisation, we show how stakeholders direct both their normative expectations and direct their locus of control towards the Government, as a form of strategic positioning. Commercial actors state the policy responses that they expect of the UK government mostly relate to reducing costs. We comment on actors’ arguably strategic appeals to normative expectations that displace responsibility from themselves, and the Government's potential role in terms of intervention.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786451.2023.2217948conditionalityindustrial decarbonisationsociotechnical expectationssteel industryrhetoric |
| spellingShingle | Pepa Ambrosio-Albala Paul J. Upham William F. Gale Normative expectations of government as a policy actor: the case of UK steel industry decarbonisation International Journal of Sustainable Energy conditionality industrial decarbonisation sociotechnical expectations steel industry rhetoric |
| title | Normative expectations of government as a policy actor: the case of UK steel industry decarbonisation |
| title_full | Normative expectations of government as a policy actor: the case of UK steel industry decarbonisation |
| title_fullStr | Normative expectations of government as a policy actor: the case of UK steel industry decarbonisation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Normative expectations of government as a policy actor: the case of UK steel industry decarbonisation |
| title_short | Normative expectations of government as a policy actor: the case of UK steel industry decarbonisation |
| title_sort | normative expectations of government as a policy actor the case of uk steel industry decarbonisation |
| topic | conditionality industrial decarbonisation sociotechnical expectations steel industry rhetoric |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786451.2023.2217948 |
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