Conspiracy Theories Are Central to the Complex System of Predictors of Italian Vaccine Hesitancy
Published in Italian Political Science, 2026
Recommended citation: Bertero, A. (2026). Conspiracy Theories Are Central to the Complex System of Predictors of Italian Vaccine Hesitancy. Italian Political Science, 20(3), 239–262. https://doi.org/10.69101/IPS.2025.20.3.3 https://italianpoliticalscience.com/index.php/ips/article/view/295
Rather than treating the predictors of vaccine hesitancy as a list of independent correlates, the article reconstructs them as an interconnected system. Conspiracy endorsement emerges as a central node associated with many other predictors, while a narrower set of variables remains directly related to hesitancy after accounting for the rest of the network.