2026 Cas Mudde: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	55	157	135	96	79	242	35871

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Political Science

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35871

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award

Overview

Cas Mudde is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States and specializes in research within the social sciences. Their scholarly focus centers predominantly on political science and related interdisciplinary fields.

The primary fields of study for Cas Mudde include:

Social Sciences

Subfields of research encompass:

Political Science and International Relations
Sociology and Political Science
Communication
Urban Studies
Demography

The main topics explored in Cas Mudde's work include:

Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Electoral Systems and Political Participation
European Union Policy and Governance
Social Policy and Reform Studies
Media Influence and Politics
Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

Cas Mudde has contributed to several academic journals and publication venues with a notable frequency. These include:

Journal of Language and Politics
Journal of Right-Wing Studies
IPPR Progressive Review
Cambridge University Press eBooks
British Journal of Political Science

Among the recent papers co-authored or authored by Cas Mudde, key titles include:

Populism in Europe: An Illiberal Democratic Response to Undemocratic Liberalism (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2019), 2021, Government and Opposition
The Far-Right Threat in the United States: A European Perspective, 2022, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Other notable recent works co-authored by collaborators include:

The PopuList: A Database of Populist, Far-Left, and Far-Right Parties Using Expert-Informed Qualitative Comparative Classification (EiQCC), 2023, British Journal of Political Science
Victims of the Pandemic? European Far-Right Parties and COVID-19, 2020, Nationalities Papers
Discourses and practices of the 'New Normal', 2023, Journal of Language and Politics

Frequent collaborators with Cas Mudde are:

Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler
Matthijs Rooduijn
Andrea L. P. Pirro
Daphne Halikiopoulou
Caterina Froio

Best Publications

The Populist Zeitgeist

Cas Mudde

6442
Citations
Populist radical right parties in Europe

Cas Mudde

5817
Citations
Populism: A Very Short Introduction

Cas Mudde;Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

3581
Citations
Exclusionary vs. Inclusionary Populism: Comparing Contemporary Europe and Latin America

Cas Mudde;Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

1438
Citations
How Populist Are the People? Measuring Populist Attitudes in Voters

Agnes Akkerman;Cas Mudde;Andrej Zaslove

1186
Citations
The ideology of the extreme right

Cas Mudde

1154
Citations
The Two Sides of Euroscepticism Party Positions on European Integration in East Central Europe

Petr Kopecký;Cas Mudde

1102
Citations
Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat Or Corrective For Democracy?

Cas Mudde;Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

1034
Citations
The Populist Radical Right: A Pathological Normalcy

Cas Mudde

1013
Citations
Three decades of populist radical right parties in Western Europe: So what?

Cas Mudde

967
Citations
THE PARTY FAMILY AND ITS STUDY

Peter Mair;Cas Mudde

727
Citations
Studying Populism in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on the Contemporary and Future Research Agenda:

Cas Mudde;Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

710
Citations
The war of words defining the extreme right party family

Cas Mudde

589
Citations
What's left of the radical left? The European radical left after 1989: decline and mutation

Luke March;Cas Mudde

544
Citations
The Single-Issue Party Thesis: Extreme Right Parties and the Immigration Issue

Cas Mudde

471
Citations
The Far Right Today

Cas Mudde

385
Citations
Racist Extremism in Central & Eastern Europe

Cas Mudde

352
Citations
Measuring Populist Attitudes

Kirk Hawkins;Scott Riding;Cas Mudde

337
Citations
The Populist Radical Right: A Reader

Cas Mudde

321
Citations
Right-Wing Extremism Analyzed. A Comparative Analysis of the Ideologies of Three Alleged Right-Wing Extremist Parties (NPD, NDP, CP'86)

Cas Mudde

304
Citations
The PopuList: an overview of populist, far right, far left and Eurosceptic parties in Europe

Matthijs Rooduijn;Stijn van Kessel;Caterina Froio;Andrea Pirro

296
Citations
Populism in Europe and the Americas

Cas Mudde;Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

283
Citations
Extreme-right Parties in Eastern Europe

Cas Mudde

143
Citations
Exclusionary vs. Inclusionary Populism

Cas Mudde;Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser

12
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Andreas Schedler Central European University

Ulrich Sedelmeier London School of Economics and Political Science

Kim Lane Scheppele Princeton University

Peter Mair European University Institute

Paul Taggart University of Sussex

Matthijs Rooduijn University of Amsterdam

External Links

Wikipedia of Cas Mudde Personal website of Cas Mudde

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