Belief and Backsliding: The Role of Religious Identity in Perceptions of Democratic Backsliding in India

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Brief Overview

This paper uses a 1,000-respondent survey experiment to examine how religiosity shapes perceptions of democratic backsliding in India. As the world's largest democracy, India offers an ideal context for exploring this relationship.

Authors

• Shuyan Huang, University of Illinois

• Jung Mun Park, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign