Searching for Democracy: Public Awareness of Democratic Backsliding

• In Event: Democratic Backsliding, the Quality of Democracy and Support for Democracy

Brief Overview

We combine Google Trends Data and the Democratic Erosion Events Dataset (DEED)to investigate whether citizens search for democracy related terms after democratic backsliding events.

Authors

• Kayleigh Tompkins, University of Texas at Dallas

• Samiul Haque, University of Texas at Dallas