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Dr Hugo Drochon's Outputs (11)

Elites and Democracy (2025)
Book
Drochon, H. Elites and Democracy. Princeton University Press

A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that a populist revolt against elites is driving democratic politics throughout the West. But in Elites and Dem... Read More about Elites and Democracy.

The sociodemographic correlates of conspiracism (2024)
Journal Article
Enders, A., Klofstad, C., Diekman, A., Drochon, H., Rogers de Waal, J., Littrell, S., Premaratne, K., Verdear, D., Wuchty, S., & Uscinski, J. (2024). The sociodemographic correlates of conspiracism. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 14184. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64098-1

Despite hundreds of studies examining belief in conspiracy theories, it is still unclear who—demographically—is most likely to believe such theories. To remedy this knowledge gap, we examine survey data containing various operationalizations of consp... Read More about The sociodemographic correlates of conspiracism.

Belief in White Replacement (2024)
Journal Article
Klofstad, C., Christley, O., Diekman, A., Kübler, S., Enders, A., Funchion, J., Littrell, S., Murthi, M., Premaratne, K., Seelig, M., Verdear, D., Wuchty, S., Drochon, H., & Uscinski, J. (2024). Belief in White Replacement. Politics, Groups and Identities, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2024.2342834

The "White Replacement" conspiracy theory, that government and corporate leaders are "replacing" white people, is linked to several mass shootings. Given its recent ubiquity in mainstream elite rhetoric, concerns have arisen about how widespread beli... Read More about Belief in White Replacement.

From Dusk till Dawn: Bobbio on the left/right dichotomy (2022)
Journal Article
Drochon, H. (2022). From Dusk till Dawn: Bobbio on the left/right dichotomy. Journal of Political Ideologies, 27(3), 330-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2022.2129220

In his seminal 1994 book Left and Right, Bobbio defined the left as favouring equality, whereas the right favoured inequality. Whilst that distinction retains all of its intellectual purchase, Bobbio was also open to theorizing the centre as either t... Read More about From Dusk till Dawn: Bobbio on the left/right dichotomy.

Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories? (2022)
Journal Article
Enders, A., Farhart, C., Miller, J., Uscinski, J., Saunders, K., & Drochon, H. (2023). Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories?. Political Behavior, 45, 2001-2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-022-09812-3

A sizable literature tracing back to Richard Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style (1964) argues that Republicans and conservatives are more likely to believe conspiracy theories than Democrats and liberals. However, the evidence for this proposition is mi... Read More about Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories?.

Have beliefs in conspiracy theories increased over time? (2022)
Journal Article
Uscinski, J., Enders, A., Klofstad, C., Seelig, M., Drochon, H., Premaratne, K., & Murthi, M. (2022). Have beliefs in conspiracy theories increased over time?. PLoS ONE, 17(7), Article e0270429. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270429

The public is convinced that beliefs in conspiracy theories are increasing, and many scholars, journalists, and policymakers agree. Given the associations between conspiracy theories and many non-normative tendencies, lawmakers have called for polici... Read More about Have beliefs in conspiracy theories increased over time?.

The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures (2022)
Journal Article
Uscinski, J. E., Smallpage, S. M., Enders, A. M., & Drochon, H. (2022). The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures. Political Science Research and Methods, 11(3), 555-569. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2022.1

Polls asking respondents about their beliefs in conspiracy theories have become increasingly commonplace. However, researchers have expressed concern about the willingness of respondents to divulge beliefs in conspiracy theories due to the stigmatiza... Read More about The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures.

Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study (2020)
Journal Article
Walter, A. S., & Drochon, H. (2022). Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study. Political Studies, 70(2), 483-501. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321720972616

What explains conspiracy thinking in Europe and America? This is the first and largest comparative study of conspiracy thinking to date, presenting findings using a representative sample of 11,523 respondents in nine countries. First, it shows that t... Read More about Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study.

Raymond Aron’s "Machiavellian" liberalism (2019)
Journal Article
Drochon, H. (2019). Raymond Aron’s "Machiavellian" liberalism. Journal of the History of Ideas, 80(4), 621-642. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2019.0034

Recent interest in Raymond Aron has focused on his “Cold War Liberalism,” but he is neither a neo-liberal nor a Hayekian libertarian. Instead, this article will argue that Aron is a “Machiavellian” liberal – that his democratic theory is underpinned... Read More about Raymond Aron’s "Machiavellian" liberalism.

Nietzsche's Great Politics (2016)
Book
Drochon, H. (2016). Nietzsche's Great Politics. Princeton University Press

Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves awa... Read More about Nietzsche's Great Politics.