Dan Bailey
@danbaileypoleco.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer of International Political Economy & Ecological Economics / Researching the climate crisis, unjust transitions and the state.
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Dan Bailey
@danbaileypoleco.bsky.social
· Dec 10
Climate-related risks to central bank independence: the depoliticisation and repoliticisation of the Bank of England in the transition to net zero
Faced with ever-growing climate-related financial risks, the role of central banks in climate governance has intensified debates surrounding central bank independence (CBI). Informed by elite inter...
www.tandfonline.com
New publication!
Does assuming a greater role in climate governance risk repoliticising central banks and undermining CBI?
(A thread)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Does assuming a greater role in climate governance risk repoliticising central banks and undermining CBI?
(A thread)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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NEW PUBLICATION - The Great Dane @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Larsen and I review the differing concepts of state-led approaches to the green transition over the past two decades. We attempt to provide some conceptual coherence to the debate. The article is Open Access.
New article with @james7jackson.bsky.social out in Competition & Change: The green versus environmental state: Reviewing two decades of conceptualizing state-led approaches
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September 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
NEW PUBLICATION - The Great Dane @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Larsen and I review the differing concepts of state-led approaches to the green transition over the past two decades. We attempt to provide some conceptual coherence to the debate. The article is Open Access.
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🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate.
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate.
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New Publication - with my BlueSky absent friend James Silverwood we detail how renewable energy markets were created by the environmental state in the UK - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The environmental state: Analysing the ‘creation’ of renewable energy markets in the United Kingdom - James Silverwood, James Jackson, 2025
Following work on the green state, the environmental state has become a prominent analytical concept in recent decades commonly applied to understand the expand...
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June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New Publication - with my BlueSky absent friend James Silverwood we detail how renewable energy markets were created by the environmental state in the UK - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors?
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies
With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments around the world committed to developing national plans to reduce emissions and limit average global temperatures to below 2 °C above p...
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June 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors?
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Dan Bailey
New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy:
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
May 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy:
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
Reposted by Dan Bailey
Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social
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Decarbonising national growth models: derisking, ‘hobbled states’, and the decarbonisation possibility frontier
This article brings together Growth Model Theory and climate change under the assumption that economic growth will remain a policy priority during the green transition. The relevant research questi...
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April 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My co-author @james7jackson.bsky.social with a short blog for @cepi-cips.bsky.social on the looming climate-related risks and financial instability facing the insurance sector. Our recent work identifies 3 (or 4?) causes of "practical ignorance" when pricing in CRFR
www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/04/22/h...
www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/04/22/h...
April 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
My co-author @james7jackson.bsky.social with a short blog for @cepi-cips.bsky.social on the looming climate-related risks and financial instability facing the insurance sector. Our recent work identifies 3 (or 4?) causes of "practical ignorance" when pricing in CRFR
www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/04/22/h...
www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/04/22/h...
Reposted by Dan Bailey
New article!
This review surveys the state of knowledge regarding central bank activity on climate change, and argues that there is considerable indeterminacy in the trajectory of this activity & its potential to contribute to effective climate action.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
This review surveys the state of knowledge regarding central bank activity on climate change, and argues that there is considerable indeterminacy in the trajectory of this activity & its potential to contribute to effective climate action.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
April 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
New article!
This review surveys the state of knowledge regarding central bank activity on climate change, and argues that there is considerable indeterminacy in the trajectory of this activity & its potential to contribute to effective climate action.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
This review surveys the state of knowledge regarding central bank activity on climate change, and argues that there is considerable indeterminacy in the trajectory of this activity & its potential to contribute to effective climate action.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
And another timely article in NPE from Ban & @jhasselbalch.bsky.social questions whether we need to transcend the Green State concept (too siloed?) and focus instead on a ‘green economic planning’ agenda!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation
Sustainable futures require deep social and economic transformations to address climate change adequately. The current landscape of intergovernmental and market-based coordination is not delivering...
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December 10, 2024 at 5:46 PM
And another timely article in NPE from Ban & @jhasselbalch.bsky.social questions whether we need to transcend the Green State concept (too siloed?) and focus instead on a ‘green economic planning’ agenda!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New publication!
Does assuming a greater role in climate governance risk repoliticising central banks and undermining CBI?
(A thread)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Does assuming a greater role in climate governance risk repoliticising central banks and undermining CBI?
(A thread)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Climate-related risks to central bank independence: the depoliticisation and repoliticisation of the Bank of England in the transition to net zero
Faced with ever-growing climate-related financial risks, the role of central banks in climate governance has intensified debates surrounding central bank independence (CBI). Informed by elite inter...
www.tandfonline.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:19 PM
New publication!
Does assuming a greater role in climate governance risk repoliticising central banks and undermining CBI?
(A thread)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Does assuming a greater role in climate governance risk repoliticising central banks and undermining CBI?
(A thread)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....