Cas Mudde

Cas Mudde is a senior lecturer and former chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. His research includes the areas of political parties, extremism, democracy, civil society and European politics.

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) Committee on Concepts and Methods and servea on the editorial boards of adacemic journals such as "Acta Politica", "Democracy and Security", "Patterns of Prejudice", "Politics in Central Europe", and "The Journal of Politics". He is an author of several books and articles.

Publications:
*"Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe" (view [http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/50810/toc/9780521850810_toc.pdf Table of contents] , [http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/50810/excerpt/9780521850810_excerpt.pdf Introduction] , and [http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/50810/index/9780521850810_index.pdf 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)

References

* [http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=cas.mudde Homepage at University of Antwerp]
* [http://www.concepts-methods.org/committee_boardmembers_2006.php?id_candidato=19 Bio]