  Electrostatic theory preserves charges, but allows dipolar excitations.
Elasticity theory preserves dipoles, but allows quadrupolar (Eshelby like)
plastic events. Charged amorphous granular systems are interesting in their own
right; here we focus on their plastic instabilities and examine their
mechanical response to external strain and to external electric field, to
expose the competition between elasticity and electrostatics. In this paper a
generic model is offered, its mechanical instabilities are examined and a
theoretical analysis is presented. Plastic instabilities are discussed as
saddle-node bifurcations that can be fully understood in terms of eigenvalues
and eigenfunctions of the relevant Hessian matrix. This system exhibits moduli
that describe how electric polarization and stress are influenced by strain and
electric field. Theoretical expression for these moduli are offered and
compared to the measurements in numerical simulations.
