Rate My Professor Cas Mudde

Mudde's research explores how liberal democracies can protect themselves from political threats like extremism, populism, and Euroscepticism without eroding their foundational principles, with a focus on Europe and North America. He is renowned as the foremost expert on the far right in Western democracies and European politics. His extensive publication record features influential books such as "The Far Right Today" (Polity, 2019), "The Far Right in America" (Routledge, 2018), "Populism: A Very Short Introduction" (with Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Oxford University Press, 2017), "Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe" (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and "The Ideology of the Extreme Right" (Manchester University Press, 2000). Highly cited articles include "The Populist Zeitgeist" (2004, over 10,000 citations) and "Exclusionary vs. Inclusionary Populism" (2013). Mudde has earned numerous accolades, including the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research (2008), Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2015), Leonard Shapiro Memorial Prize Lecture (2019), Belgian Professor Chair (Francqui Foundation, 2017-18), and membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022). He co-founded the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy, formerly co-edited the European Journal of Political Research, and serves on several editorial boards. Additionally, he engages in public discourse through op-eds, lectures at forums like the European Parliament, and initiatives such as film screenings on political cinema at UGA.