Cas Mudde (born 3 June 1967) is a Dutch
political scientist
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and l ...
who focuses on
political extremism
Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views". The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense to refer to an ideology that is considered (by the speaker or by some implied share ...
and
populism in
Europe and the
United States.
His research includes the areas of
political parties,
extremism,
democracy,
civil society
Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.[European politics
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.
Biography
Mudde was a
visiting scholar
In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor ...
at the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics and visiting associate professor in the political science department at
DePauw University
DePauw University is a private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Greencastle, Indiana. It has an enrollment of 1,972 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is ...
in
Greencastle,
Indiana.
From 1999 to 2002 he was assistant professor at the
University of Edinburgh, and from 2002 to 2010 he was Assistant and later Associate Professor at the
University of Antwerp in Belgium. Since 2010, he has been teaching a first year seminar on the Radical Right movement in Europe at DePauw University. He is Associate Professor of Political Science at the
University of Georgia's
School of Public and International Affairs. He is also adjunct professor at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo.
He is the co-founder and convener of the
ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy. He is a board member of the
IPSA (International Political Science Association) Committee on Concepts and Methods and serves on the editorial boards of
academic journal
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...
s such as ''
Acta Politica
''Acta Politica'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science published by Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the Dutch Political Science Association. The editors-in-chief are Benjamin Leruth (University of Groningen) an ...
'', ''Democracy and Security'', ''
Patterns of Prejudice
Patterns of Prejudice is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of historical and contemporary intolerance and social exclusion. Published by Taylor & Francis, the articles are selected via a double-blind method, and publications ...
'', ''Politics in Central Europe'', and ''
The Journal of Politics
''The Journal of Politics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of political science established in 1939 and published quarterly (February, May, August and November) by University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Southern Political Science Assoc ...
''.
Mudde is an author of several books and articles. He is the younger brother of the former rightist
Tim Mudde. In the preface to ''The Ideology of the Extreme Right'', he thanks him for the respect they still have for each other despite "differences of opinion".
[Mudde, C. (2003).''The Ideology of the Extreme Right'', p.IX.]
In 2008 Mudde was awarded the
Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research
The Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research is an academic honour awarded by the International Science Council, the University of Bergen and the European Consortium for Political Research, in memory of the political scientist an ...
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References
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Homepage at University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs
Homepage at University of Antwerp
(Eurozine, 31 August 2010)
Interview with Cas Mudde
(in Dutch)
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1967 births
Living people
Academics and writers on far-right extremism
Populism scholars
DePauw University faculty
University of Georgia faculty
Dutch emigrants to the United States
Dutch political scientists
Winners of the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research