Ambrosio-Albala, P orcid.org/0000-0003-4793-8381, Upham, PJ and Gale, WF (2023) Normative expectations of government as a policy actor: the case of UK steel industry decarbonisation. Interntional Journal of Sustainable Energy, 42 (1). pp. 594-611. ISSN 1478-6451
Abstract
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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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Conditionality; industrial decarbonisation; sociotechnical expectations; steel industry; rhetoric |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2023 14:59 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2023 15:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14786451.2023.2217948 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:199775 |