Cas Mudde: Far-Right Populism
Channel: Room for Discussion
Date: 11/12/2019

Cas Mudde is a political scientist from the Netherlands who specializes in political extremism, democracy, civil society and comparative political studies. He is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia and Professor II at the Center for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo.

The discussion will centre around some of the major driving forces between the numerous far-right movements we see today. It will touch upon the prevalence of populist discourse within the far right, urban versus rural dynamics, the rise of Islamophobia and antisemitism, and comparisons between the far right and the far left. How did we get to the current trend of popular far-right parties across the world? What threat do these parties and movements pose to democracy? And is populism inherently destructive?
 
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