Hugo Drochon
Biographic Data
| ID | 759461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugo Drochon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugo |
| FAMILY NAME | Drochon |
| SIGNATURE | DROCHON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4407-5875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Elites and Democracy
Why elites always rule democracies—and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy today A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that a populist revolt against elites is driving democratic politics throughout the West. But in Elites and Democracy , Hugo Drochon argues that democracy is more accurately and usefully und…
Belief in White Replacement
The "White Replacement" conspiracy theory, that government and corporate leaders are "replacing" white people, is linked to several mass shootings. Given its recent ubiquity in mainstream elite rhetoric, concerns have arisen about how widespread beliefs in the "White Replacement" conspiracy theory are in the United States. However, political scientists have yet to understand why people believe or act upon this idea, or what the political and psyc…
Symposium on Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules
Symposium on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century
Left or centre? Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions from the French Revolution to today
Forty years on, Theda Skocpol’s account of the French Revolution remains remarkably robust. But how are we to think about political change today? Since Louis XVI walked up to the guillotine, we have been used to thinking of a left/right opposition driving political change, but this was not the only division at the time, nor indeed since: during the Terror, Robespierre was supported by the Montagnards, the deputies who sat on the highest benches o…
Symposium on Gregory Conti's parliament the mirror of the nation: Representation, deliberation and democracy in victorian Britain
Symposium on gregory conti’s parliament the mirror of the nation: representation, deliberation and democracy in victorian Britain." History of European Ideas, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Symposium on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, Socialist
Symposium on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, Socialist." History of European Ideas, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1
The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures
Polls asking respondents about their beliefs in conspiracy theories have become increasingly commonplace. However, researchers have expressed concern about the willingness of respondents to divulge beliefs in conspiracy theories due to the stigmatization of those ideas. We use an experimental design similar to a list experiment to decipher the effect of social desirability bias on survey responses to eight conspiratorial statements. Our study inc…
Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories
Have beliefs in conspiracy theories increased over time?
The public is convinced that beliefs in conspiracy theories are increasing, and many scholars, journalists, and policymakers agree. Given the associations between conspiracy theories and many non-normative tendencies, lawmakers have called for policies to address these increases. However, little evidence has been provided to demonstrate that beliefs in conspiracy theories have, in fact, increased over time. We address this evidentiary gap. Study …
Symposium on Nadia Urbinati’s Me The People
Symposium on Nadia Urbinati’s Me The People." History of European Ideas, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1
Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study
What explains conspiracy thinking in Europe and America? This is the first and largest comparative study of conspiracy thinking to date, presenting findings using a representative sample of 11,523 respondents in nine countries. First, it shows that the overall level of conspiracy thinking in Europe is equal to or slightly lower than the United States, contradicting the notion that conspiracy theories is an especially American phenomenon. Second, …
From Dusk till Dawn: Bobbio on the left/right dichotomy
In his seminal 1994 book Left and Right, Bobbio defined the left as favouring equality, whereas the right favoured inequality. Whilst that distinction retains all of its intellectual purchase, Bobbio was also open to theorizing the centre as either the ‘included’, ‘inclusive’ and ‘transversal’ middle. Building on Bobbio’s work, this article posits that a centre/extremes opposition is a better way of conceptualizing political change, after which a…
Robert Michels, the iron law of oligarchy and dynamic democracy
On the 5 April 2018 the online site of the Merriam-Webster dictionary reported that lookups for a certain term had risen by 3,000% over the past week, placing it at the number one spot in its 'Trending Now' rubric. 2 The rise was associated with US Attorney Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 US Presidential Elections, and how he had taken the unusual step of interviewing Russian businessmen with links to Putin who had trave…
Raymond Aron's "Machiavellian" Liberalism
Recent interest in Raymond Aron has focused on his "Cold War Liberalism," but he is neither a neo-liberal nor a Hayekian libertarian. Instead, this article will argue that Aron is a "Machiavellian" liberal - that his democratic theory is underpinned by an engagement with Pareto, Mosca, and Michels. First, it will reconstruct Aron's dialogue with Pareto. Second, it will explore his overlooked sociological writings on the ruling classes. Third, it …
Nietzsche's Great Politics
Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation by the Nazis and challenges the use of the philosopher in postmodern democratic thought. Rather than starting with contemporary democratic the…
Nietzsche Between History, Economics and Politics
Is Nietzsche best approached through the lenses of intellectual history, the history of political thought, political theory or indeed political economy? This is the challenge James Chappel, Udi Gre
Democracy, Anti-Totalitarianism and Liberalism
In the introduction to his 1994 collected edition on New French Thought, seminal in bringing many contemporary French thinkers—Marcel Gauchet, Pierre Manent, Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut—to an Englis
Nietzsche and Political Thought
Nietzsche continues to be a source of inspiration for political thinking, as this diverse collection of articles makes clear. The aim of the volume—according to its commissioning editor Keith Ansell-Pearson, known for his seminal Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and Nietzsche contra Rousseau (Cambridge University Press, 1996)—is not to determine, once and for all, what that contribution to politica…
Pourquoi les élites règnent toujours
Nihilism, democracy and liberalism: Maudemarie Clark’s ‘Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics’
Maudemarie Clark is a leading interpreter of Nietzsche’s theory of truth, and as such we are fortunate to have her papers on his ethics, politics and metaphysics collected in one volume. Opening her section on politics – the subject of this review – with a critique of Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, she condemns Bloom’s Straussian demand that philosophers lie about the fact that no truth exists to protect their way of life as a recurren…
An Old Carriage with New Horses’: Nietzsche’s Critique of Democracy
Debates about Nietzsche's political thought today revolve around his role in contemporary democratic theory: is he a thinker to be mined for stimulating resources in view of refounding democratic legitimacy on a radicalised, postmodern and agonistic footing, or is he the modern arch-critic of democracy budding democrats must hone their arguments against? Moving away from this dichotomy, this article asks first and foremost what democracy meant fo…
Nietzsche and Politics
The Time Is Coming When We Will Relearn Politics”
In Ecce Homo’s “Why I am a Destiny,” Nietzsche declares that “the concept of politics” will merge entirely into a “Mind-war” and that “the earth will know Great politics.” Through analyzing these two concepts, the aim of this article is to counter Bernard Williams’s claim that “Nietzsche did not move to any view that offered a coherent politics.” Nietzsche does so in calling for the founding of a “Party of Life,” whose “concept of politics” is to…
Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study
What explains conspiracy thinking in Europe and America? This is the first and largest comparative study of conspiracy thinking to date, presenting findings using a representative sample of 11,523 respondents in nine countries. First, it shows that the overall level of conspiracy thinking in Europe is equal to or slightly lower than the United States, contradicting the notion that conspiracy theories is an especially American phenomenon. Second, …
The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures
Polls asking respondents about their beliefs in conspiracy theories have become increasingly commonplace. However, researchers have expressed concern about the willingness of respondents to divulge beliefs in conspiracy theories due to the stigmatization of those ideas. We use an experimental design similar to a list experiment to decipher the effect of social desirability bias on survey responses to eight conspiratorial statements. Our study inc…
Robert Michels, the iron law of oligarchy and dynamic democracy
On the 5 April 2018 the online site of the Merriam-Webster dictionary reported that lookups for a certain term had risen by 3,000% over the past week, placing it at the number one spot in its 'Trending Now' rubric. 2 The rise was associated with US Attorney Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 US Presidential Elections, and how he had taken the unusual step of interviewing Russian businessmen with links to Putin who had trave…
From Dusk till Dawn: Bobbio on the left/right dichotomy
In his seminal 1994 book Left and Right, Bobbio defined the left as favouring equality, whereas the right favoured inequality. Whilst that distinction retains all of its intellectual purchase, Bobbio was also open to theorizing the centre as either the ‘included’, ‘inclusive’ and ‘transversal’ middle. Building on Bobbio’s work, this article posits that a centre/extremes opposition is a better way of conceptualizing political change, after which a…
Raymond Aron's "Machiavellian" Liberalism
Recent interest in Raymond Aron has focused on his "Cold War Liberalism," but he is neither a neo-liberal nor a Hayekian libertarian. Instead, this article will argue that Aron is a "Machiavellian" liberal - that his democratic theory is underpinned by an engagement with Pareto, Mosca, and Michels. First, it will reconstruct Aron's dialogue with Pareto. Second, it will explore his overlooked sociological writings on the ruling classes. Third, it …
Belief in White Replacement
The "White Replacement" conspiracy theory, that government and corporate leaders are "replacing" white people, is linked to several mass shootings. Given its recent ubiquity in mainstream elite rhetoric, concerns have arisen about how widespread beliefs in the "White Replacement" conspiracy theory are in the United States. However, political scientists have yet to understand why people believe or act upon this idea, or what the political and psyc…
Nietzsche and Politics
The Time Is Coming When We Will Relearn Politics”
In Ecce Homo’s “Why I am a Destiny,” Nietzsche declares that “the concept of politics” will merge entirely into a “Mind-war” and that “the earth will know Great politics.” Through analyzing these two concepts, the aim of this article is to counter Bernard Williams’s claim that “Nietzsche did not move to any view that offered a coherent politics.” Nietzsche does so in calling for the founding of a “Party of Life,” whose “concept of politics” is to…
Nihilism, democracy and liberalism: Maudemarie Clark’s ‘Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics’
Maudemarie Clark is a leading interpreter of Nietzsche’s theory of truth, and as such we are fortunate to have her papers on his ethics, politics and metaphysics collected in one volume. Opening her section on politics – the subject of this review – with a critique of Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, she condemns Bloom’s Straussian demand that philosophers lie about the fact that no truth exists to protect their way of life as a recurren…
An Old Carriage with New Horses’: Nietzsche’s Critique of Democracy
Debates about Nietzsche's political thought today revolve around his role in contemporary democratic theory: is he a thinker to be mined for stimulating resources in view of refounding democratic legitimacy on a radicalised, postmodern and agonistic footing, or is he the modern arch-critic of democracy budding democrats must hone their arguments against? Moving away from this dichotomy, this article asks first and foremost what democracy meant fo…
Democracy, Anti-Totalitarianism and Liberalism
In the introduction to his 1994 collected edition on New French Thought, seminal in bringing many contemporary French thinkers—Marcel Gauchet, Pierre Manent, Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut—to an Englis
Nietzsche and Political Thought
Nietzsche continues to be a source of inspiration for political thinking, as this diverse collection of articles makes clear. The aim of the volume—according to its commissioning editor Keith Ansell-Pearson, known for his seminal Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and Nietzsche contra Rousseau (Cambridge University Press, 1996)—is not to determine, once and for all, what that contribution to politica…
Pourquoi les élites règnent toujours
Nietzsche's Great Politics
Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation by the Nazis and challenges the use of the philosopher in postmodern democratic thought. Rather than starting with contemporary democratic the…
Nietzsche Between History, Economics and Politics
Is Nietzsche best approached through the lenses of intellectual history, the history of political thought, political theory or indeed political economy? This is the challenge James Chappel, Udi Gre
Raymond Aron's "Machiavellian" Liberalism
Recent interest in Raymond Aron has focused on his "Cold War Liberalism," but he is neither a neo-liberal nor a Hayekian libertarian. Instead, this article will argue that Aron is a "Machiavellian" liberal - that his democratic theory is underpinned by an engagement with Pareto, Mosca, and Michels. First, it will reconstruct Aron's dialogue with Pareto. Second, it will explore his overlooked sociological writings on the ruling classes. Third, it …
Robert Michels, the iron law of oligarchy and dynamic democracy
On the 5 April 2018 the online site of the Merriam-Webster dictionary reported that lookups for a certain term had risen by 3,000% over the past week, placing it at the number one spot in its 'Trending Now' rubric. 2 The rise was associated with US Attorney Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 US Presidential Elections, and how he had taken the unusual step of interviewing Russian businessmen with links to Putin who had trave…
Have beliefs in conspiracy theories increased over time?
The public is convinced that beliefs in conspiracy theories are increasing, and many scholars, journalists, and policymakers agree. Given the associations between conspiracy theories and many non-normative tendencies, lawmakers have called for policies to address these increases. However, little evidence has been provided to demonstrate that beliefs in conspiracy theories have, in fact, increased over time. We address this evidentiary gap. Study …
Symposium on Nadia Urbinati’s Me The People
Symposium on Nadia Urbinati’s Me The People." History of European Ideas, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1
Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study
What explains conspiracy thinking in Europe and America? This is the first and largest comparative study of conspiracy thinking to date, presenting findings using a representative sample of 11,523 respondents in nine countries. First, it shows that the overall level of conspiracy thinking in Europe is equal to or slightly lower than the United States, contradicting the notion that conspiracy theories is an especially American phenomenon. Second, …
From Dusk till Dawn: Bobbio on the left/right dichotomy
In his seminal 1994 book Left and Right, Bobbio defined the left as favouring equality, whereas the right favoured inequality. Whilst that distinction retains all of its intellectual purchase, Bobbio was also open to theorizing the centre as either the ‘included’, ‘inclusive’ and ‘transversal’ middle. Building on Bobbio’s work, this article posits that a centre/extremes opposition is a better way of conceptualizing political change, after which a…
Symposium on Gregory Conti's parliament the mirror of the nation: Representation, deliberation and democracy in victorian Britain
Symposium on gregory conti’s parliament the mirror of the nation: representation, deliberation and democracy in victorian Britain." History of European Ideas, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Symposium on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, Socialist
Symposium on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, Socialist." History of European Ideas, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1
The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures
Polls asking respondents about their beliefs in conspiracy theories have become increasingly commonplace. However, researchers have expressed concern about the willingness of respondents to divulge beliefs in conspiracy theories due to the stigmatization of those ideas. We use an experimental design similar to a list experiment to decipher the effect of social desirability bias on survey responses to eight conspiratorial statements. Our study inc…
Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories
Belief in White Replacement
The "White Replacement" conspiracy theory, that government and corporate leaders are "replacing" white people, is linked to several mass shootings. Given its recent ubiquity in mainstream elite rhetoric, concerns have arisen about how widespread beliefs in the "White Replacement" conspiracy theory are in the United States. However, political scientists have yet to understand why people believe or act upon this idea, or what the political and psyc…
Symposium on Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules
Symposium on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century
Left or centre? Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions from the French Revolution to today
Forty years on, Theda Skocpol’s account of the French Revolution remains remarkably robust. But how are we to think about political change today? Since Louis XVI walked up to the guillotine, we have been used to thinking of a left/right opposition driving political change, but this was not the only division at the time, nor indeed since: during the Terror, Robespierre was supported by the Montagnards, the deputies who sat on the highest benches o…
Elites and Democracy
Why elites always rule democracies—and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy today A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that a populist revolt against elites is driving democratic politics throughout the West. But in Elites and Democracy , Hugo Drochon argues that democracy is more accurately and usefully und…
Political science (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Democracy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (6 works)