Skip to main content

Conspiracism and Delegitimation

A lot of people are saying: The new conspiracism and the assault on democracy, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2019, 9780691188836

Contemporary Political Theory volume 19, pages 142–174 (2020)Cite this article

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution.

Access options

Buy single article

Instant access to the full article PDF.

USD 39.95

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

References

  • @sunflow24234217. Just Another SOROS Paid Caravan. 13 October 2018, 9:35pm. Tweet, https://twitter.com/sunflow24234217/status/1051330671141097473, accessed 17 October 2019.

  • Albright, J. (2018, October 25) Rumores sin fronteras [Blogpost], https://medium.com/@d1gi/rumores-sin-fronteras-e181aadf7743, accessed 17 October 2019.

  • Ashe, P. (1969) Naked Came the Stranger. New York: Lyle Stuart.

    Google Scholar 

  • Barkun, M. (2003) Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Benkler, Y., Faris, R. and Roberts, H. (2018) Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Connolly, W. (2017) Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy Under Trumpism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dennett, D. (1990) Memes and the exploitation of imagination. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48(2): 127–135.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Frankfurt, H. (2005) On Bullshit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Gaetz, M. [@RepMattGaetz]. BREAKING: Footage in Honduras Giving Cash 2 Women & Children 2 Join the Caravan & Storm the US Border @ Election Time. Soros? US-Backed NGOs? Time to Investigate the Source. 17 October 2018, 11:36am, https://twitter.com/repmattgaetz/status/1052629557826736129?lang=en, accessed 17 October 2019.

  • Graetz, M. and Shapiro, I. (2006) Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Guthrie, A. (2018) Spontaneous caravan of migrants winds way through Honduras, Associated Press, October 13, https://www.foxnews.com/world/spontaneous-caravan-of-migrants-winds-way-through-honduras, accessed 17 October 2019.

  • Hochschild, A. (2016) Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. New York: The New Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lockwood, P. (2019) The communal mind, London Review of Books, February 21, https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n04/patricia-lockwood/the-communal-mind, accessed 12 November 2019.

  • Madison, J. (1787) The same subject continued: The union as a safeguard against domestic faction and insurrection, Federalist 10, November 23, https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/The+Federalist+Papers#TheFederalistPapers-10, accessed 19 October 2019.

  • Montero, D. (2017) Alex Jones settles Chobani Lawsuit and retracts comments about refugees in Twin Falls, Idaho. The Los Angeles Times, May 17, https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-chobani-alex-jones-20170517-story.html, accessed 18 October 2019.

  • Muirhead, R. and Rosenblum, N.L. (2019) A Lot of People are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Nelson, E. (2014). The Royalist Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Oreskes, N. and Conway E. (2010) Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. New York: Bloomsbury Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Oreskes N. (2019). Why Trust Science?, Edited by S. Macedo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

  • Patterson, T. (2016) News coverage of the 2016 General election: How the press failed the voters, Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy, December 7, https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-election/, accessed 19 October 2019.

  • Proctor, R. and Schiebinger, L. (2008) Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Proctor, R. (2012) Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Skocpol, T. and Williamson, V. (2016) The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sunstein, C. and Vermuele, A. (2009) Conspiracy theories: Causes and cures. Journal of Political Philosophy 17(2): 202–227.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tulis, J.K. (2017) ‘Afterword,’ The Rhetorical Presidency. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Watts, D.J. and Rothschild, D.M. (2017) Don’t blame the election on fake news. Blame it on the media, Columbia Journalism Review, 5 December, https://www.cjr.org/analysis/fake-news-media-election-trump.php, accessed October 19, 2019.

  • Weil, S. (2013) On the Abolition of All Political Parties (Note sur la suppression générale des partis politiques 1943), Translated by S. Leys. Melbourne: Black.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA

    Russell Muirhead

  2. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Nancy L. Rosenblum

  3. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Matthew Landauer

  4. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    Stephen Macedo

  5. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Jeffrey K. Tulis

  6. Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

    Nadia Urbinati

Authors
  1. Russell Muirhead
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Nancy L. Rosenblum
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Matthew Landauer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Stephen Macedo
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Jeffrey K. Tulis
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Nadia Urbinati
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Russell Muirhead.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and Permissions

About this article

Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Muirhead, R., Rosenblum, N.L., Landauer, M. et al. Conspiracism and Delegitimation. Contemp Polit Theory 19, 142–174 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-019-00372-6

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-019-00372-6