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Record W4417216004 · doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2025.115006

The political economy of green industrial policy in liberal states

2025· article· en· W4417216004 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Bruno Arcand

Bibliographic record

VenueEnergy Policy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicSustainability and Climate Change Governance
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec-Société et CultureFonds de recherche du Québec
KeywordsIndustrial policyLegitimationArgument (complex analysis)PoliticsIndustrial RevolutionLiberalism

Abstract

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Nations are increasingly turning to green industrial policy to promote low-carbon economic development. While liberal states have long been portrayed as institutionally ill-equipped to pursue state-led economic transformations, recent research shows that they can and do advance such strategies. However, explanations for why these countries vary in their capacity to overcome institutional constraints in green industrial policy remain underexplored. The argument in this paper is that some political economy conditions shape the capacity of liberal states to pursue proactive green industrial policy. Empirically, the analysis compares the industrial strategy for carbon capture of two liberal states, Canada and the United Kingdom, that display contrasting degrees of alignment with the liberal market approach. Findings reveal that the United Kingdom's shift towards a more state-led strategy was enabled by politically salient coalitions in industrial regions and the renewed legitimation of industrial policy after the 2016 Brexit referendum, whereas Canada's strong hydrocarbon incumbency and persistent market fundamentalism sustained a liberal market approach. The paper contributes to understanding the conditions under which liberal states can move towards more state-led industrial transformations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.086

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.014
Scholarly communication0.0090.002
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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