Political Extremism

Cas Mudde is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs of the University of Georgia. Previously he taught at various universities in Europe and the US. He is the co-founder and former convener of the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy. He is the editor of the Working Paper series on Political Concepts and Political Methodology of the IPSA (International Political Science Association) Committee on Concepts and Methods and serves on the editorial boards of academic journals such as Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, and Politics in Central Europe. His research includes the areas of political parties, extremism, democracy, civil society and European politics.

• VOLUME ONE: EXTREMISM AND DEMOCRACY: CONCEPT, THEORIES AND RESPONSESPART ONE: CONCEPTSMeaning and Forms of Political Present in Past and Present - Uwe Backes The Crippled Epistemology of Extremism - Russell Hardin The Problem of Extremism - Ronald Wintrobe PART TWO: THEORIESMass Society and Extremist Politics - Joseph Gusfield Fascism - Seymour Martin Lipset Left, Right and CenterPolitical Extremism - Robert Smith Left, Center and RightPathways to Extremism - Manus Midlarsky Extremist Parties and Political Turmoil - G. Bingham Powell Jr. Two PuzzlesStatus Consistency and Right-Wing Extremism - Gary Rush Ten Theories of the Extreme Right - Roger Eatwell The Populist Radical Right - Cas Mudde A Pathological NormalcyPART THREE: RESPONSESElectoral Regimes and the Proscription of Anti-Democratic Parties - John Finn Free Speech and Political Extremism - Carl Cohen How Nasty Are We Free to Be?Defending Democracy - Stefan Rummens and Koen Abts The Concentric Containment of Political ExtremismVOLUME TWO: HISTORICAL EXTREMISMPART ONE: TOTALITARIANISM The Totalitarian Movement - Hannah Arendt The General Characteristics of Totalitarian Dictatorship - Carl Joachim Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski Towards a Comparative Politics of Movement-Regimes - Robert Tucker PART TWO: FASCISM AND NAZISM Introduction - Zeev Sternhell, Mario Sznayder and Maia Asheri Fascism as an Alternative Political CultureComparing Fascist Movements - Peter Merkl Political Space and Fascism as a Late-Comer - Juan Linz Conditions Conducive to the Success or Failure of Fascism as a Mass Movement in Inter-War EuropeTowards a New Model of Generic Fascism - Roger Eatwell Who, Indeed, Did Vote for Hitler? - Thomas Childers Fascism, National Socialism and Conservatives in Europe, 1914-1945 - Carl Levy Issues for ComparativistsPART THREE: COMMUNISM Did the Russian Revolution Have to Happen? - Richard Pipes The Antecedent and Prototypes of the System - János Kornai Was Stalin Really Necessary? - Alec Nove The Stalinist Experience in Eastern Europe - George Schöpflin The Comparative Study of Communist Political Systems - Alfred Meyer Soviet Neo-Traditionalism - Ken Jowitt The Political Corruption of a Leninist RegimeWhat Was Communism? A Retrospective in Comparative Analysis - Andrew Janos VOLUME THREE: RIGHT-WING EXTREMISMPART ONE: POST-WAR EXTREME RIGHT POLITICAL ACTORSCaught in Its Own Net - Roger Griffin Post-War Fascism outside Europe′Classic′ Fascism and the New Radical Right in Western Europe - Diethelm Prowe Comparisons and ContrastsThe Radical Right - Seymour Martin Lipset A Problem for American Democracy?Right-Wing Extremism in Post-War Europe - Klaus von Beyme Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe - Cas Mudde The Ideological Shift on the Russian Radical Right - Mariène Laruelle From Demonizing the West to Fear of MigrantsConservative and Right-Wing Movements - Kathleen Blee and Kimberly Creasap PART TWO: EXPLANATIONS The Silent Counter-Revolution - Piero Ignazi Hypotheses on the Emergence of Extreme Right-Wing Parties in EuropeThe Contemporary Radical Right - Herbert Kitschelt (in collaboration with A.J. McGann) An Interpretative and Explanatory FrameworkIs Extreme Right-Wing Populism Contagious? Explaining the Emergence of a New Party Family - Jens Rydgren Explaining the Rise of Racist and Extreme Right Violence in Western Europe - Ruud Koopmans Grievances or Opportunities?Electoral Sociology - Kai Arzheimer Who Votes for the Extreme Right and Why - and When?The Sociology of the Radical Right - Jens Rydgren The Radical Right in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe - Michael Minkenberg Comparative Observations and InterpretationsPART THREE: CONSEQUENCES Against the System - Hans-Georg Betz Radical Right-Wing Populism′s Challenge to Liberal DemocracyReacting to the Radical Right - David Art Lessons from Germany and AustriaThe Defending Democracy and the Extreme Right - Ami Pedahzur A Comparative AnalysisThree Decades of Populist Radical Right Parties in Western Europe - Cas Mudde So What?VOLUME FOUR: LEFT-WING EXTREMISMPART ONE: RADICAL LEFT PARTIES IN EUROPEWhat′s Left of the Radical Left? The European Radical Left since 1989 - Luke March and Cas Mudde Decline and Mutation′Conclusion′ from Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe - Uwe Backes and Patrick Moreau ′Introduction′ from Radical Left Parties in Europe - Luke March Comparative Perspectives on Communist Successor Parties in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia - Taras Kuzio The Radical Left in Coalition Government - Richard Dunphy and Tim Bale Towards a Comparative Measurement of Success and FailureOut of Left Field? Explaining the Variable Electoral Success of European Radical Left Parties - Luke March and Charlotte Rommerskirchen PART TWO: LEFT POPULIST PARTIES IN LATIN AMERICAThe Resurgence of Radical Populism in Latin America - Carlos de la Torre Latin America′s Populist Revival - Kenneth Roberts Populism and Democracy in Latin America - Francisco Panizza and Romino Miorelli PART THREE: EXTREME LEFT SOCIAL MOVEMENTSFrom Seattle to Porto Alegre - José Seoane and Emilio Taddei The Anti-Neo-Liberal Globalization Movement′This Is What Democracy Looks Like′ - José Pedro Zuquete Is Representation under Siege?Why Does Occupy Matter? - Jenny Pickerill and John Krinsky The Occupy Movement - Jacquelien Van Stekelenburg Product of This TimeReligion, Violence and Radical Environmentalism - Taylor Bron From Earth First! To the Unabomber to the Earth Liberation Front