00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1686042739784870677 Buklod 20240712132350.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 240712s2019 nyu agr b|001 0|eng d 9780190844080 (paperback) 20489024 SS-12487 Forefront Php2,097.00 Department of Sociology DLC DMLS rda eng DMLUC HV 6275 C66 2019 Conspiracy theories and the people who believe them edited by Joseph E. Uscinski. New York Oxford University Press [2019] ©2019 xx, 511 pages illustrations 24 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-506) and index. Conspiracy theories are inevitable in complex human societies. And while they have always been with us, their multiplication and proliferation is unprecedented due to increasing knowledge, a sense of powerlessness, and a distrust of elites, that have merged to generate conspiracy theories on a vast scale in our era. In recent years, scholars have begun to study this genuinely important phenomenon in a concerted way. In Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, Joseph E. Uscinski has gathered forty top researchers on the topic to provide the foundational tools and evidence to better understand conspiracy theories not just in the United States, but around the world. Each chapter is informed by three core questions: Why do so many people believe in conspiracy theories? What are their effects? What can or should be done about them? Using systematic analysis, rich discussion, and cutting-edge research, this volume will help us better understand an extremely important, yet relatively neglected, phenomenon. Conspiracies. Conspiracy theories. Uscinski, Joseph E. editor. FO UPD DMLS HV 6275 C66 2019 Book