Cas Mudde (born 3 June 1967) is a Dutch

political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

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 Populism refers to a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against " the elite". It is frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment. The term developed ...

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...

and the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

. His research includes the areas of

political parties A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or pol ...

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 ...

democracy Democracy (From grc, δημοκρατία, dēmokratía, ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation (" direct democracy"), or to choose gov ...

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 The politics of Europe deals with the continually evolving politics within the continent of Europe. It is a topic far more detailed than other continents due to a number of factors including the long history of nation states in the region as ...

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 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 a member of both the G ...

in Greencastle,

Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...

. From 1999 to 2002 he was assistant professor at the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

, and from 2002 to 2010 he was Assistant and later Associate Professor at the

University of Antwerp The University of Antwerp ( nl, Universiteit Antwerpen) is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is ''UA'', but ''UAntwerpen'' is more recently used. The University of Antwerp has about 20,000 stud ...

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 , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

School of Public and International Affairs A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compul ...

. 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 The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is a scholarly association that supports and encourages the training, research and cross-national cooperation of many thousands of academics and graduate students specialising in political sci ...

(European Consortium for Political Research) Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy. He is a board member of the

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(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 d ...

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 Tim Mudde (born 23 February 1965), also known as ''Brigadier M'' or ''Sassem Tim'', was active within the right wing radical movement in the Netherlands between the 1980s and the early 2010s. He was party secretary of the ''Centre Party '86'' (an ...

. 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 a ...

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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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mudde, Cas 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