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Replication Data for: The Supply of Conspiricism in State-Controlled Media |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/SNLHH6 |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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2025-01-20 |
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Bibliographic Citation: |
Koehler-Derrick, Gabriel; Nielsen, Richard; Romney, David, 2025, "Replication Data for: The Supply of Conspiricism in State-Controlled Media", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SNLHH6, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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Replication Data for: The Supply of Conspiricism in State-Controlled Media |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/SNLHH6 |
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Authoring Entity: |
Koehler-Derrick, Gabriel (NYU Abu Dhabi) |
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Nielsen, Richard (MIT) |
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Romney, David (BYU) |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Nielsen, Richard |
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Depositor: |
Nielsen, Richard |
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Date of Deposit: |
2024-09-25 |
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SNLHH6 |
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Social Sciences |
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Abstract: |
When, and why, do governments promote conspiracy theories and use conspiracist language in official media? We build on claims that autocrats use misinformation for diversionary purposes by showing that the level of threat a regime faces affects conspiracism: a mix of "classic" conspiracy theorizing and conspiratorial language. Governments facing threats may attempt to stave them off by promoting conspiracy theories in state media. By contrast, secure governments are not as prone to conspiracism because it can be politically costly in the long-term. We test our arguments by examining conspiracism in Egypt's print media between 2005 and 2018. When the government faced threats, the state-controlled newspaper prints more conspiracism than its independent counterpart. This relationship is moderated by changes in Egypt's government: the state newspaper supplied less conspiracism during a brief period following relatively free and fair Presidential elections. |
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1.readme.txt |
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A readme. |
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text/plain |
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archive_ct.zip |
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Full replication archive as a .zip. Files for all parts of the analysis organized hierarchically inside. |
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application/zip |