Johnathan Guy
Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
Georgia Institute of Technology
Curriculum Vitae
jguy38@gatech.edu
Johnathan Guy
Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
Georgia Institute of Technology
Curriculum Vitae
jguy38@gatech.edu
Book Project
Against the Current: Electricity Patronage and the Energy Transition
Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, many low-carbon power generation technologies (wind, solar, geothermal) became economically feasible at scale. Yet countries vary in the extent to which they have taken advantage of this opportunity. My ongoing book project seeks to explain variation in the electricity procurement strategies of governments. I draw on formal theory, cross-national and administrative data, and comparative historical analysis based on hundreds of elite interviews in India and Indonesia. The project analyzes the conditions under which incumbent governments have incentives to plan for renewable energy over fossil fuels, linking the energy transition to broader debates over non-programmatic distributive politics and economic reform in developing countries.