Whose Democracy is it Anyway? Public Opinion and Crisis Decision-making in India

• In Event: Legislators and Representation of Constituent Preferences on Foreign Policy

Brief Overview

Do elites take public opinion into account during national security crises? We conduct an original survey experiment to show that elites are not as sensitive to public opinion as the literature on democratic accountability asserts.

Authors

• Debak Das, Stanford University

• Shubha Kamala Prasad, Georgetown University