Cas Mudde is a Dutch academic who studies the Extreme Right in Europe

Europe

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. As of 2010 he is a visiting scholar

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 at the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics and visiting associate professor

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 at the political science

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 department DePauw University

DePauw University

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 in Greencastle

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, Indiana

Indiana

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. For several years he hold the positions of senior lecturer

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 and chairman of the equivalent department at the University of Antwerp

University of Antwerp

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 in Belgium

Belgium

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. His research includes the areas of political parties

Political Parties

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, extremism

Extremism

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, democracy

Democracy

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, civil society

Civil society

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 and European politics. Since the fall semester of 2010, he has been teaching a first year seminar on the Radical Right movement in Europe at DePauw University.

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

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 (International Political Science Association) Committee on Concepts and Methods and serves on the editorial boards of academic journal

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s such as Acta Politica, Democracy and Security, Patterns of Prejudice

Patterns of Prejudice

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, Politics in Central Europe, and The Journal of Politics.

Cas Mudde is an author of several books and articles. He is the younger brother of the prominent rightist Tim Mudde

Tim Mudde

Tim Mudde , also known as Brigadier M or Sassem Tim, is active within the right wing radical movement in The Netherlands...

.

Publications:

• '"The Populist Radical Right: A Pathological Normalcy" West European Politics, Volume 33, Issue 6, 2010
• Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe (view Table of contents, Introduction, and Index, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85081-0)
• The Ideology of the Extreme Right (Manchester University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-719-06446-3)
• Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe (editor, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 978-0-415-35594-0)
• Western Democracies and the New Extreme Right Challenge (co-editor, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-36971-8)
• "The Populist Zeitgeist", Government & Opposition, Vol.39, No.4, 2004
• "What's Left of the Radical Left? The European Radical Left after 1989: Decline and Mutation" Comparative European Politics, Vol.3, No.1, 2005 (with Luke March)
• "Political Extremism in Europe" European Political Science Vol.4, No.4, 2005) (with Sarah de Lange)

External Links

• Cas Mudde: The populist radical Right: A pathological normalcy (Eurozine, 31.8.2010)