Climate Adaptation Promotes Pro-Climate Voting? The Effect of Public Safety Power Shutoffs on Voter Support for Pro-Climate Ballot Propositions

• In Event: How the Environment Shapes Elections

Brief Overview

We examine the impact of climate adaptation policies on realized political behaviors by estimating the causal effect of Public Safety Power Shut-offs on voting outcomes for statewide ballot propositions with DiD and TWFE models.

Authors

• Nate Clark, University of California, Los Angeles

• Emma Franzblau, University of California, Los Angeles

• Samuel Adrian Mamaril, University of California, Los Angeles

• Yuto Ota, University of California, Los Angeles