Democracy and belief in conspiracy theories in New Zealand

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dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.volume57
dc.contributor.authorMarques MD
dc.contributor.authorHill SR
dc.contributor.authorClarke EJR
dc.contributor.authorWilliams M
dc.contributor.authorLing M
dc.contributor.authorKerr J
dc.contributor.authorDouglas K
dc.contributor.authorCichocka A
dc.contributor.authorSibley C
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-25T06:35:27Z
dc.date.available2022-01-01
dc.date.available2024-07-25T06:35:27Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description
dc.description.abstract<p>The COVID-19 pandemic supercharged the spread of fake news, misinformation, and conspiracy theories worldwide. Using a national probability sample of adults from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study during 2020 (17–99 years old; M = 48.59, SD = 13.86; 63% women, 37% men; N = 41,487), we examined the associations between agreement with general conspiracy beliefs and political indicators of intention to vote and satisfaction with government, alongside political factors including trust in politicians, political efficacy, identity centrality, and political ideology. Left-wing political ideology, trust in politicians, and political efficacy accounted for most of the explained variance in satisfaction with the government. General conspiracy belief was also a unique contributor to lower satisfaction with the government. We also found a curvilinear relationship between political ideology with heightened belief in conspiracies at both ideological extremes and the centre. Findings are discussed in terms of the consequences of conspiracy belief on democratic engagement.</p>
dc.description.publication-statusPublished
dc.format.extent264 - 279
dc.identifier.citationAustralian Journal of Political Science, 2022, 57 (3), pp. 264 - 279
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10361146.2022.2122773
dc.identifier.eissn1363-030X
dc.identifier.elements-id457131
dc.identifier.issn1036-1146
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/70497
dc.publisherAustralian Political Studies Association
dc.relation.isPartOfAustralian Journal of Political Science
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/s8qf4
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dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
dc.subject.anzsrc1605 Policy and Administration
dc.subject.anzsrc1606 Political Science
dc.titleDemocracy and belief in conspiracy theories in New Zealand
dc.typeJournal article
massey.relation.uri-descriptionAccepted version
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of Psychology
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