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Conspiracy Everywhere

Published:2023-12-02 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1478-9299
Container-title:Political Studies Review
language:en
Short-container-title:Political Studies Review

Author:

Muirhead Russell¹^ORCID,Rosenblum Nancy²

Affiliation:

1. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

2. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Abstract

Conspiracy seems to be everywhere, and not only in the United States, where the “rigged election” conspiracy led a US president to reverse the results of a national election. We consider what is distinctive about contemporary conspiracism and argue that the prevalence of fact-free conspiratorial narratives marks a shift from what Hofstadter called the “pedantic” style of conspiracy theory. We show how conspiracism today threatens democratic institutions and sketch how the articles in this volume (on conspiracism) advance our understanding of conspiracy and democracy.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14789299231212165

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