About
David Buckley is Associate Professor of Political Science, and Paul Weber Endowed Chair in Politics, Science & Religion at the University of Louisville, where he serves as the Director of the Center for Asian Democracy. His research focuses on the comparative relationship between religion and democracy. His book, Faithful to Secularism: The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal and the Philippines (Columbia University Press 2017), analyzes the emergence endurance of secular democracy in cases with politically active religious majorities. It received the International Studies Association’s 2018 Book Award for Religion and International Relations. He was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow (2016-17), serving as Senior Advisor in the Department of State’s Office of Religion in Global Affairs
Recent Peer-reviewed Research
- David Buckley, Steven Brooke, and Bryce Kleinsteuber "How populists engage religion: mechanisms and evidence from the Philippines" Democratization 2022
- David Buckley, “Religious Influence and Climate Politics in Duterte’s Philippines: Opportunity Lost?” in Climate Politics and the Power of Religion, ed. Evan Berry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022).
- Steven Brooke, David Buckey, Clarissa David, and Ronald Mendoza. Forthcoming. “Religious. Protection from Populist Violence: The Catholic Church and the Philippine Drug War,” American Journal of Political Science
- Steven Brooke and David Buckley, “Parish-Based Responses to the Philippine Drug War,” Program on Governance and Local Development Working Paper Series, Fall 2021.
- David Buckley, Jason Gainous, and Kevin Wagner. 2021. “Is Religion the Opiate of the Digital Masses? Religious Authority, Social Media, and Protest,” Information, Communication, and Society: 1-17.
- David Buckley. Faithful to Secularism: The Religious of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines, New York City: Columbia University Press. 2017.
- David Buckley and Clyde Wilcox. 2017. “Religious Change, Political Incentives, and Explaining Religious-Secular Relations in the United States and the Philippines,” Politics and Religion, 10: 543-566.