# Conspiracy

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- Book: [Conspiracy](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicolas-guilhot/conspiracy) ([Conspiracy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicolas-guilhot/conspiracy.md))
- Authors: [Nicolas Guilhot](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicolas-guilhot)
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- ISBN: 978-06-7429-766-1
- Pages: 280
- Published: 2026-10-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Conspiracy theories are widely viewed as a cause of democracy’s current crisis. Challenging this orthodoxy, Nicolas Guilhot shows that they thrive at moments of acute disenfranchisement, when political systems fail to provide credible pathways toward a better future. Conspiracy is a consequence, rather than a cause, of political crisis.