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CAS MUDDE [email protected] HIGHER EDUCATION 1993-1998 PhD, Political Science, University of Leiden. Title: The Extreme Right Party Family: An Ideological Approach Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Mair (†) 1986-1993 MA, Political Science, University of Leiden. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Mair (†) ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2014 – Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of International Affairs, University of Georgia 2012 – 2014 Assistant Professor, Department of International Affairs, University of Georgia 2011 – 2012: Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished University Professor in Political Science, DePauw University 2010 – 2011: Nancy Schaenen Visiting Scholar Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics & Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, DePauw University 2009 – 2010: Visiting Fellow, The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame 2008 – 2009: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon 2006 – 2010: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium 2002 – 2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp 1999 - 2002: Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh, UK 1998 - 1999: Assistant Professor, International Relations and European Studies (IRES) & Political Science Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary CV - Cas Mudde – August 2015 2 ADDITIONAL SHORT-TERM VISITING POSITIONS University of Amsterdam/Free University Amsterdam (February 2015); Cornell University (October 2010); University of Oslo (July 2010); Malmö University (April-May 2007); Rutgers University (January-June 2006); New York University (April 2005); Universidad Jaume I, Castellón, Spain (May 2003); University of California Santa Barbara, United States (August 2001); Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic (Fall 1999); Academia Istropolitana Nova, Bratislava, Slovakia (January 1999). ASSOCIATED POSITIONS • Affiliated Scholar, Center for Right-Wing Studies, University of California, Berkeley. HONORS • Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research by the International Social Science Council (ISSC), European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and University of Bergen, 2008. • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2015. • Outstanding Academic Title by Choice magazine, 2008. • Stein Rokkan Lecture by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), 2012. • Luigi Einaudi Chair in European and International Studies, Cornell Institute for European Studies, Cornell University (2010). • Willy Brandt Guest Professor, School of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER), Malmö University (2007). • Fulbright EU Scholar-in-Residence, Center for Comparative European Studies, Rutgers University (2006). LIST OF PUBLICATIONS My full list of published work includes 2 single-authored books, 6 edited volumes, 2 readers, 2 special issues/mini-symposiums, ca. 40 refereed journal articles, ca. 60 non-refereed journal articles and book chapters, and some 100 articles in non-academic magazines and newspapers. My work has been published in 18 languages: Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish. What follows is a selection of the most relevant publications. BOOKS The Israeli Settler Movement: Assessing and Explaining Social Movement Success (with Sivan Hirsch- Hoefler). Cambridge UP. (under contract) CV - Cas Mudde – August 2015 3 Populism: A Very Short Introduction (with Cristóbal Rivera Kaltwasser). Oxford: Oxford UP. (under contract) Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007, 385 pp. (hbk & pbk). • Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research 2008 • Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2008 • Symposium in Political Studies Review in 2009 • Reviewed in, among others, Acta Politica, American Journal of Sociology, Choice, e-Extreme, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Journal of Politics, Modern Italy, Nationalities Papers, Perspectives on Politics, Political Studies Review, Res Publica, Review of European and Russian Affairs, Review of Politics, Swiss Political Science Review • Greek version by Epikentro Publishers published in 2011. The Ideology of the Extreme Right. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000, 212 pp. (pbk in 2002). • One of six books in European Politics recommended by the editors of Political Studies. • Reviewed in Acta Politica, e-Extreme, Political Studies. EDITED VOLUMES Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy? (with Cristóbal Rivera Kaltwasser). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 257 pp. (pbk in 2013) • Greek version by Epikentro Publishers in 2013. • Romanian version by Institutul European to be published in 2014. • Reviewed in Choice, East European Politics, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Latin American Politics & Society, Morgenbladet, Perspectives on Politics, Political Studies Review, Política y gobierno and Sunday Review. Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge, 2005, 314 pp (hbk and pbk). • Reviewed in Du Bois Review, Slavic and East European Journal. Western Democracies and the New Extreme Right Challenge (with Roger Eatwell). London: Routledge, 2004, 216 pp. (pbk in 2009) • Reviewed in Democratization, Party Politics, Patterns of Prejudice, Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions. Uncivil Society? Contentious Politics in Post-Communist Europe (with Petr Kopecky). London: Routledge, 2003, 188 pp. (pbk in 2012) • Reviewed in Europe-Asia Studies, Transitions Online. CV - Cas Mudde – August 2015 4 Democratie in verval? (with Joop van Holsteyn). Amsterdam: Boom, 2002, 224 pp. Extreem-rechts in Nederland (with Joop van Holsteyn). Den Haag: Sdu, 1998, 231 pp. READERS The Contemporary Far Right: A Reader. London: Routledge. (under contract) Youth and the Extreme Right. New York: IDEBATE, 2014, 224 pp. • Reviewed in Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics. Political Extremism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 4 Volumes, (SAGE Major Works), 2013, 1576 pp. EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES & (MINI-)SYMPOSIUMS “Measurement Matters: Empirical Implications of Data Selection in Comparative Politics” (with Andreas Schedler), mini-symposium in Political Research Quarterly, Vol.63, No.2, 2010. “Deviant Democracies: Democratization against the Odds” (with Renske Doorenspleet and Petr Kopecký), special issue of Democratization, Vol.15, No.4, 2008. REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES “Canadian Multiculturalism and the Absence of the Far Right” (with Emma Ambrose), forthcoming in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol.21, No.2, 2015, pp.213-236. “Vox Populi or Vox Masculini? Populism and Gender in Northern Europe and South America” (with Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser), Patterns of Prejudice, Vol.49, Nos.1-2, 2015, pp.16-36. “How Populist are the People? Measuring Populist Attitudes in Voters” (with Agnes Akkerman and Andrej Zaslove), Comparative Political Studies, Vol.47, No.9, 2014, pp.1324-1353. “’Ecoterrorism’: Terrorist Threat or Political Ploy?” (with Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler), Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol.37, No.7, 2014, pp.586-603. “Fighting the System? Populist Radical Right Parties and Party System Change”, Party Politics, Vol.20, No.2, 2014, pp.217-226. CV - Cas Mudde – August 2015 5 “Exclusionary vs. Inclusionary Populism: Comparing Contemporary Europe and Latin America” (with Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser), Government & Opposition, Vol.48, No.2, 2013, pp.147-174. “Thirty Years of Populist Radical Right Politics in Western Europe: So What? The 2012 Stein Rokkan Lecture”, European Journal of Political Research, Vol.52, No.1, 2013, pp.1-19. [ Earlier version was published in Dutch in Res Publica, Vol.54, No.2, 2012, pp.221-238 ] “Hungary’s Illiberal Turn: Can Outsiders Help?” (with Erin K. Jenne), Journal of Democracy, Vol.23, No.3, 2012, pp.147-155. “The Populist Radical Right: A Pathological Normalcy”, West European Politics, Vol.33, No.6, 2010, pp.1167-1186. [ Shorter versions were published in Swedish in Fronesis, No.34, 2010, pp.90-104; in English on Eurozine, 31 August 2010; in Dutch in Res Publica, Vol.53, No.2, 2011, pp.239- 241; and in Estonian in Vikerkaar, September 2011 ] “Data Usage in Quantitative Comparative Politics” (with Andreas Schedler), Political Research Quarterly, Vol.63, No.2, 2010, pp.417-433. “Introduction: Rational Data Choice” (with Andreas Schedler), Political Research Quarterly, Vol.63, No.2, 2010, pp.410-416. “Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe Redux”, Political Studies Review, Vol.7, No.3, 2009, pp.330-337. [ part of a five-article symposium on my book Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe ] “Upping the Odds: Deviant Democracies vs. Theories of Democratization” (with Renske Doorenspleet), Democratization, Vol.15, No.4, 2008, pp.815-832. “Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe”, East European Politics and Societies, Vol.19, No.2, 2005, pp.161-184. “What’s Left of the Radical Left? The European Radical Left Since 1989: Decline and Mutation” (with Luke March), Comparative European Politics, Vol.3, No.1, 2005, pp.23-49. CV - Cas Mudde – August 2015 6 “The Populist Zeitgeist”, Government and Opposition, Vol.39, No.3, 2004, pp.541-563. [ Reprinted in Polish in Olga Wysocka (ed.), Populizm: Antologia tekstow. Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, forthcoming ] “Rethinking Civil Society” (with Petr Kopecký), Democratization, Vol.10,
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