Как конспиративната политическа идеология интерпретира пандемията от коронавирус? Случаят на ПП „Народна партия истината и само истината“
How Conspiratorial Political Ideology Interprets the Coronovirus Pandemic? The Case of Political Party „Peoples’ Party the Truth and Nothing but the Truth“

Author(s): Valentin Valkanov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Sociology, Political behavior, Political psychology, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: conspiracy theory; ideology; conspiracy ideology; narratives; COVID-19; coronavirus
Summary/Abstract: Bulgaria has been undergoing numerous crises since 2020 – the coronavirus pandemic, followed by the war in Ukraine and its strong local consequences, and a political crisis with five early elections for National Assembly, all in a period of three years. In this social turbulence, new political parties emerged, one of which came to a particular interest due to its ideology resting on conspiracy theories. In a previous article I have followed the main narratives that members of the party presented during the fall of 2022 election campaign. Here I will further my investigation deeper into the conspiracy theories that were used to form these narratives.

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