All the Right Enemies: Elite Conspiracy Endorsement and the Lamestream Media Heuristic

• In Event: Content Analysis: Media Coverage of Politicians

Brief Overview

Why do congressional candidates endorse conspiracy theories? Using newspaper data and an original survey experiment, we show that in so doing, candidates attract negative press but also raise their profile and signal positive valence to core voters.

Authors

• Benjamin Schaeffer Noble, Washington University in St Louis

• Taylor Nicole Carlson, Washington University in St Louis