Conspiracy

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A Conspiracy is a secret plan crafted by a group to commit illegal or deceitful acts, often with the goal of gaining power, subverting authority, or achieving other hidden objectives

  • Context:
  • Example(s):
    • The Watergate scandal, which led to the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon, demonstrating a political conspiracy.
    • The plot to assassinate Julius Caesar, a historical example of a conspiracy that changed the course of Roman politics.
    • Market manipulation schemes like those revealed during the Enron scandal, showing corporate conspiracies.
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  • Counter-Example(s):
    • A Solo Crime, where a single individual acts alone without collaboration or secrecy among multiple parties.
    • Open Governance practices, which are characterized by transparency and accountability, standing in direct opposition to conspiratorial secrecy.
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  • See: Conspiracy Theory, Secret, Crime, Civil Wrong, Denialism, Conspiracy Fiction Genre, Treason, Subversion, Collusion.


References

2017

  • (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy Retrieved:2017-10-30.
    • A conspiracy is an agreement between persons who intend to gain some collective advantage while keeping their agreement secret from the public or from other people affected by it. Depending on the circumstances, a conspiracy may also be a crime, or a civil wrong.

      A “conspiracy theory” is a belief that a conspiracy has actually been decisive in producing a political event of which the theorists strongly disapprove. [1]

  1. Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent, American Conspiracy Theories (2014) excerpt