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Bibliography of Conspiracy Theory Studies Bibliography of Conspiracy Theory Studies Aarnio, Kia, and Marjaana Lindeman. “Paranormal Beliefs, Education, and Thinking Styles.” Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 39, no. 7, 2005, pp. 1227-36. Aaronovitch, David. Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History. Jonathan Cape, 2009. Abaido, Ghada M., and Aseel A. Takshe. “COVID-19: Virus or Viral Conspiracy Theories?” American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research, vol. 8, no. 2, 2020, pp. 122-24, BioMedGrid, doi: 10.34297/AJBSR.2020.08.001252. Abalakina-Paap, Marina, et al. “Beliefs in Conspiracies.” Political Psychology, vol. 20, no. 3, 1999, pp. 637-47. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3792165. Abcarian, Gilbert. “American Political Radicalism: Context and Perspectives.” American Political Radicalism: Contemporary Issues and Orientations, edited by Abcarian, Xerox, 1971, pp. 1-18. Abramoqitz, Sharon, et al. “The Opposite of Denial: Social Learning at the Onset of the Ebola Emergency in Liberia.” The Communication and Community Engagement Response to Ebola, 2014-2015, special issue of Journal of Health Communication, vol. 22, no. 1, 2017, pp. 59-65. Taylor & Francis Online, doi:10.1080/10810730.2016.1209599. Abramowicz, Michael. Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making. Yale UP, 2008. Adorno, Theodor W., et al. The Authoritarian Personality. Harper, 1950. Agee, Philip. Introduction. Government by Gunplay: Assassination Conspiracy Theories from Dallas to Today, edited by Sid Blumenthal and Harvey Yazijian, New American Library, 1976, pp. xi-xvii. Ahlquist, J. S., et al. “Alien Abduction and Voter Impersonation in the 2012 US General Election: Evidence from a Survey List Experiment.” Election Law Journal, vol. 14, no. 4, 2014, pp. 460-75. Mary Ann Liebert, doi:10.1089/elj.2013.0231. Ahmed, Nafeez M. “Capitalism, Covert Action and State Terrorism: Toward a Political Economy of the Deep State.” The Dual State: Parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the Dual State, edited by Eric Wilson, Ashgate, 2012, pp. 51-81. ---. Geheimsache 9/11: Hintergründe über den 11. September und die Logik amerikanischer Machtpolitik [Secret Matter 9/11: Background Knowledge of September 11th and the Logic of American Power Politics]. Riemann, 2002. ---. The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism. Olive, 2005. Ahmed, Wasim et al. “COVID-19 and the 5G Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data.” Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 22, no. 5, 2020, JMIR Publications, doi:10.2196/19458. Aistrope, Tim. “Conspiracy Discourse and the Occupy Movement.” Global Change, Peace & Security, vol. 25, no. 1, 2013, pp. 113-18. Taylor & Francis Online, doi:10.1080/14781158.2013.758092. ---. Conspiracy Theory and American Foreign Policy. Manchester UP, 2016. New Approaches to Conflict Analysis. Aistrope, Tim, and Roland Bleiker. “Conspiracy and Foreign Policy.” Security Dialogue, vol. 49, no. 3, 2018, pp. 165-82. SAGE Journals, doi:10.1177/0967010617748305. 1 Akerlof, George A., and Robert J. Shiller. Phishing for Fools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception. Princeton UP, 2015. Akhtar, Aasim Sajjad, and Ali Nobil Ahmad. “Conspiracy Statecraft in Postcolonial States: Theories and Realities of the Hidden Hand in Pakistan’s War on Terror.” Third World Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, 2015, pp. 94- 110. Al-Azm, Sadik J. “Orientalism and Conspiracy.” Orientalism and Conspiracy: Politics and Conspiracy Theory in the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Sadik J. Al-Azm, edited by Arndt Graf, Shirin Fatih, and Ludwig Paul, I. B. Tauris, 2011, pp. 3-28. Library of Modern Middle East Studies 92. ---. “The Tragedy of Iblis.” Orientalism and Conspiracy: Politics and Conspiracy Theory in the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Sadik J. Al-Azm, edited by Arndt Graf, Shirin Fatih, and Ludwig Paul, I. B. Tauris, 2011, pp. 181-222. Library of Modern Middle East Studies 92. Al-Kandari, Ali A. J. “Arab News Networks and Conspiracy Theories about America: A Political Gratification Study.” Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 59-76. ingentaCONNECT, doi:10.1386/jammr.3.1-2.59_1. Alava, Séraphin, Noha Najjir, and Hasna Hussein. “Étude des processus de radicalisation au sein des réseaux sociaux: place des arguments complotistes et des discours de rupture” [“Study of Radicalization Processes within Social Networks: The Role of Complotist Arguments and Rupture Discourses”]. Les théories du complot à l’heure du numérique [Theories of Conspiracy in the Digital Age], special issue of Quaderni, vol. 94, 2017, pp. 29-40. OpenEdition, journals.openedition.org/quaderni/1106. Albert, Michael, and Stephen R. Shalom. “Conspiracies or Institutions: 9-11 and Beyond.” Z Magazine, 2002, zcomm.org/zmagazine/conspiracies-or-institutions-9-11-and-beyond-by-stephen-shalom. Albertson, Bethany, and Kimberly Guiler. “Conspiracy Theories, Election Rigging, and Support for Democratic Norms.” Research & Politics, vol. 7, no. 3, 2020, Sage Pub, doi:10.1177/2053168020959859. Allen, George. The Complaint of Mexico, and Conspiracy against Liberty. J. W. Alden, 1843. Allen, Lori. “Sincerity, Hypocrisy, and Conspiracy Theory in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 48, no. 4, 2016, pp. 701-20. Cambridge Core, doi:10.1017/S0020743816000830. Allington, Daniel, and Nayana Dhavan. “The Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Compliance with Public Health Guidance with Regard to COVID-19.” Centre for Countering Digital Hate, April 2020. Allington, Daniel, and Tanvi Joshi. “‘What Others Dare Not Say’: An Antisemitic Conspiracy Fantasy and Its YouTube Audience.” Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, vol. 3, no. 1, 2020, Academic Studies P, doi:10.26613/jca/3.1.42. Allington, Daniel, et al. “Health-protective Behaviour, Social Media Usage and Conspiracy Belief During COVID- 19 Public Health Emergency.” Psychological Medicine, 2020, pp. 1-7, Cambridge UP, doi:10.1017/S003329172000224X. Allman, Matthew J. “Swift Boat Captains of Industry for Truth: Citizens United in the Illogic of the Natural Person Theory of Corporate Personhood.” Florida State U Law Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2011, pp. 387-410. Florida State U Law Review, ir.law.fsu.edu/lr/vol38/iss2/5. Allport, Gordon W., and Leo Postman. The Psychology of Rumor. Holt, 1948. Altemeyer, Bob. The Authoritarian Specter. Harvard UP, 1996. Alter, Jonathan. “The Age of Conspiracism.” Newsweek, 1997, p. 47. 2 Alvarez, David J. Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust. UP of Kansas, 2002. Modern War Studies. Amadeu Antonio Stiftung, editor. No World Order: Wie antisemitische Verschwörungsideologien die Welt verklären [No World Order: How Antisemitic Conspiratorial Ideologies Romanticize the World]. Amadeu Antonio Stiftung, 2015. Brochure. Amadeu Antonio Stiftung, www.amadeu-antonio- stiftung.de/w/files/pdfs/verschwoerungen-internet.pdf. Amarasingam, Amarnath. “Baracknophobia and the Paranoid Style: Visions of Obama as the Antichrist on the World Wide Web.” Network Apocalypse: Visions of the End in an Age of Internet Media, edited Robert Glenn Howard, Sheffield Phoenix P, 2011, pp. 96-123. Amelung, Till Randolf. “Antisemitismus im Queerformat. Eine Verschwörungstheorie namens ‘Pinkwashing’.” GZT – Zeitung der Fakultätsvertretung Geisteswissenschaften, 2017, pp. 17-21. 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