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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

religious freedom, human rights, political terror, political elite

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Political Science

Abstract

Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration on human rights, there has been an incredible growth in the research done on human rights. The universal nature of these standards and rights has ensured that the study of human rights has been particularly fruitful for comparative study. While the number of cross-national studies on human rights has quickly increased during the past decade, the majority of those studies have used a narrow conception of human rights – the level of personal integrity abuses. This study adds to existing research by testing to see if some of the factors that have been shown to affect the level of personal integrity abuses, a negative freedom, also affect the level of religious freedom, a positive freedom. I find that both democracy and wealth are associated with increased levels of religious freedom, while a larger population is associated with decreased levels of religious freedom.

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