In the current systematic review and meta-analyses, we aimed to synthesise the
relationships between psychological motives and conspiracy beliefs. We focused on …

Introduction While the study of conspiracy theory beliefs is a relatively new research area,
there has been a rise in academic interest in recent years. The literature provides evidence …

Conspiracy theories introduce a democratic paradox, as belief in conspiracy theories
predicts support for both democratic and non‐democratic political systems. In this article, we …

Soon after the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) carried an absolute majority in the 2015
parliamentary elections, The Guardian commented that Poland had just been taken over by …

Do partisans process information about conspiracy theories like other standard types of
political information–through a partisan lens? Are partisans of ethnopopulist parties more …

As transparency is believed to be a key factor linked to trust in the government, we explore
the link between the perceived lack of transparency and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs. Two …

On April 10, 2010, ninety-six people died in the plane crash near Smolensk, including the
President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Kaczyński. To this day, many conspiracies have …

This volume probes the ambiguous meanings of the 1970-1990s political 'transitions' across
postsocialist, postapartheid, and postdictatorship contexts. I begin the introduction to this …

In the recent years, one of the most popular subjects of research in political science has
been the rise of populism. In Poland, an anti-establishment government has won a second …

This master's thesis takes its cue from Polish sociologist Franciszek Czech (2019), who
argued that the saturation of Polish magazines with conspiracy narratives suggests a deep …