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: HomeAmerica’s new revolutionariesThe belief that the United States stands at a historic crossroads is widespread across the political spectrum. But...
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Published in: HomeNorway’s democratic example
The process and result in the trial of Anders Breivik are a vindication of Norway’s liberal democracy and a lesson...
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Published in: HomeWisconsin's Sikh massacre: the real danger
The perpetrator of the latest mass shooting in the United States has been compared to Timothy McVeigh and Anders...
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Published in: HomeNorway's atrocity: a story of non-impact
The immediate reactions to the terrorist attack in Oslo in July 2011 were both politicised and inaccurate. The...
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Published in: HomeEurope: from crisis to opportunity
The origin of the eurozone crisis lies in the overreach of the Maastricht treaty of 1992. A new process is needed to...
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Published in: HomeEurope's crisis and the radical right
The severe economic upheaval in Europe has not been matched by a political resurgence of the radical right. Cas...