Does Democracy Die in Darkness? Electricity Outages and Voter behavior in Sao Paulo, Brazil

• In Event: How the Environment Shapes Elections

Brief Overview

This paper quantitatively analyzes the effect of electricity shortages on voter behavior in the 2024 Sao Paulo municipal election, arguing that voters mobilize to demand better climate adaptation public services when they experience worse outages.

Author

• Bryan Trannin Bayne, American University