Abstract:Conspiracy beliefs are increasingly associated with various crises of democracy. While social scientists have mainly treated the topic with an eye to asymmetries in conspiracy support across the political spectrum, ideological explanations of conspiracy endorsement have lately come to be questioned. In response, we turn to the societal conflicts that underlie conspiracy theories’ threat to democracy and social cohesion. Focusing on a re-emerging division in society-the rural-urban divide-we identify overlap in… Show more
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