The state is often portrayed as a progressive entity enabling transition processes. However, this article delves into the limitations faced by state institutions, which have been identified as resistant to change and entrenched in path dependence. This article explores the political and institutional barriers that state institutions encounter when implementing sustainability approaches in the infrastructure sector in Chile. The article argues that explanations based on path dependence and lock-in overlook the crucial political and strategic dimensions of policy and institutional inertia. Employing a Strategic Relational Approach (SRA) reveals that the identified barriers, such as limited state capacity and institutional logics, are strategically employed by state and civil society actors to maintain a growth-oriented policy paradigm conflicting with sustainability goals. State barriers constitute a system of strategic selectivity to discourage the adoption of sustainability approaches while favouring incumbent actors, market-based systems, and those specific infrastructures of the growth-oriented paradigm.

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违背国家逻辑的可持续性：智利基础设施部门的政治和制度障碍


国家通常被描述为一个能够实现过渡进程的进步实体。然而，本文深入探讨了国家机构所面临的局限性，这些局限性被认为是抵制变革并根深蒂固的路径依赖。本文探讨了国家机构在智利基础设施部门实施可持续发展方法时遇到的政治和体制障碍。文章认为，基于路径依赖和锁定的解释忽视了政策和制度惯性的关键政治和战略层面。采用战略关系方法（SRA）表明，国家和民间社会行为者战略性地利用已确定的障碍，例如有限的国家能力和制度逻辑，以维持与可持续发展目标相冲突的增长导向的政策范式。国家壁垒构成了一种战略选择性体系，旨在阻止可持续方法的采用，同时有利于现有参与者、基于市场的体系以及增长导向范式的特定基础设施。