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Cas Mudde (born 3 June 1967, Amsterdam) is a Dutch-American political scientist. He is associate professor. He is particular well-known in the field of populism, but has also written on political extremism, political parties, democracy and European politics.

Political Science Carreer
Between 1986 and 1993 Mudde studied political science at Leiden University. Between 1993 and 1998 he wrote his PhD thesis, "The Extreme Right Party Family: An Ideological Approach" titled in political science at the same university. His supervisor was Peter Mair.

After finishing his PhD, Mudde worked for a year as an assistant professor at the International Relations and European Studies and Political Science Department of the Central European University in Budapest. He co-founded the European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy and started e-Extreme, the quarterly electronic newsletter of the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, which he edited until 2003. In 1999 he also briefly stayed at the Academia Istropolitana Nova at Bratislava and Univerzita Karlova at Prague. In 1999 he moved to the Department of Politics of the University of Edinburgh to work as an assistant-professor. In the summer of 2001 he also stayed briefly at University of California Santa Barbara. In 2002 he became assistant professor at the Department of Political Science of University of Antwerp. In that year he became co-editor of the Routledge Studies in Extremism & Democracy, together with Roger Eatwell. He served until 2009, in this period the series published 15 titles. In the spring of 2003 he stayed briefly at the Universidad Jaume I, Castellón and in the spring of 2005 at New York University and in the spring of 2006 he served as Fulbright EU Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Comparative European Studies of Rutgers University. In 2006 he became associate professor at the same institution. In the spring of 2007 he served as Willy Brandt Guest Professor at the School of International Migration and Ethnic Relations of Malmö University He stayed affiliated with the department until 2010. In 2010 he also briefly stayed at University of Oslo and as Luigi Einaudi Chair in European and International Studies at the Cornell Institute for European Studies of Cornell University.

In 2008 he moved to the United States: he was a visiting associate professor at the University of Oregon between 2008 and 2009 and between 2009 and 2010 he was a visiting fellow at the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies of the University of Notre Dame, between 2010 and 2011 he was visiting associate professor at DePauw University at Greencastle. In 2008 he was given the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research of the European Consortium of Political Research for his book Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. Between 2011 and 2012, he served as Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished University Professor in Political Science at DePauw University. From 2012 onwards he served as assistant professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, in 2014 he became a tenured associate professor at the same university. In 2012 he gave the Stein Rokkan Lecture at the ECPR General Conference. In 2015 he briefly stayed at University of Amsterdam and Free University Amsterdam. He is also affiliated Scholar wit the Center for Right-Wing Studies of the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2015 he is co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research.

View on Populism
His research agenda aims to address the question: how can liberal democracies defend themselves against political challenges without undermining their core values? He is currently working on various topics, most notably so-called 'ecoterrorism' and state responses, the far right in western democracies, Islamophobia, the Israeli settler movement, and populism around the world.

Mudde wrote three books, edited six volumens and two special issues and wrote 35 refereed articles in journals and sixty non-refereed articles and book chapters.

His most influential book is Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe, which is a standard work about populist radical right-wing parties.

Personal Life
He is the younger brother of the prominent rightist Tim Mudde, In the preface to The Ideology of the Extreme Right, he thanks him for the respect they still have for each other despite "differences of opinion".

Publications

 * "The Populist Radical Right: A Pathological Normalcy" West European Politics, Volume 33, Issue 6, 2010
 * Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe (view Table of contents, Introduction, and Index, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85081-0)
 * The Ideology of the Extreme Right (Manchester University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7190-6446-3)
 * 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)