Abstract
In the 21st century, the far right has left the Marins to become part of the political mainstream. This so-called fourth wave of the far right is characterized by heterogeneity, mainstreaming, and normalization. Like many other issues, the relationship of the far right with science is not as straightforward and simplistic as received wisdom has it. In this lecture, I will outline the heterogeneity of the positions on science of European populist radical right parties with specific reference to the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate change crisis. Moreover, I will relate them to positions held by so-called ?mainstream? parties.
About the speaker
Cas Mudde is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor of International Affairs and a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia (USA) as well as a Professor II at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo (Norway). He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). His book Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2007) won the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research in 2008. His recent books include (with Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser) Populism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), which has so far been translated into almost 20 languages, The Far Right Today (Polity, 2019), which has almost 10 translations, and (with Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler) The Israeli Settler Movement: Assessing and Explaining Social Movement Success (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Dr. Mudde is also a columnist for GuardianUS, a regular contributor to VoxEurope, and host of the podcast RADIKAAL, which focuses on the radical aspects of music, politics, and sports. He tweets at @casmudde.
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