Cas Mudde is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Georgia (USA) and a Professor II at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo (Norway). Born in the Netherlands, where he got his M.A. and Ph.D. at Leiden University, his research addresses the question: how can liberal democracies defend themselves against political challenges without undermining their core values? His recent publications include The Far Right in America (Routledge, 2018), The Populist Radical Right: A Reader (Routledge, 2017), SYRIZA: The Failure of the Populist Promise (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), (with Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser) Populism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), and On Extremism and Democracy in Europe (Routledge, 2016). He is currently finishing The Far Right Today (Polity, 2019), is a columnist for the GuardianUS and Hope not Hate, and tweets at @casmudde.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The key lesson from Syriza’s defeat? A different Europe requires both ideology and competenceTo achieve anything in politics, including changing the rules, you have to master ‘the art of the possible,’ as...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?It’s time to end the Eurosceptic illusionsThe EU is inherently a transnational neoliberal project. It is unrealistic to expect, and disingenuous to suggest,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why the new far-right political group in the European Parliament is a political failureMarine Le Pen and Geert Wilders announced the formation of the new Europe of Nations and Freedoms group in the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populism in Europe: a primerEU President Herman van Rompuy has called populism "the greatest danger for Europe". But what exactly is populism?...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A Disunited KingdomWhile the Conservative victory is remarkable, it is a mere incident in the fundamental transformation of British...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populism and liberal democracy: is Greece the exception or the future of Europe?Normal 0 false false false EL JA X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EL JA X-NONE Cas Mudde - one of the most...