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The Far Right in America Cas Mudde (University of Georgia, USA)

The Far Right in America By Cas Mudde (University of Georgia, USA)

The Far Right in America by Cas Mudde (University of Georgia, USA)


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This book collects Mudde's blog posts, interviews and op-eds on the US far right. The main emphasis of the book is on the two most important far right developments of the 21st century, the Tea Party and Donald Trump. Aimed at a non-academic audience, the book explains terminology, key terms and their relationship to (liberal) democracy.

The Far Right in America Summary

The Far Right in America by Cas Mudde (University of Georgia, USA)

This book collects Mudde's old and new blog posts, interviews and op-eds on the topic of the US far right, ranging from right-wing populists to neo-Nazi terrorists. The main emphasis of the book is on the two most important far right developments of the 21st century, the Tea Party and Donald Trump. Primarily aimed at a non-academic audience,the book explains terminology, clarifies the key organizations and people and their relationship to (liberal) democracy.

About Cas Mudde (University of Georgia, USA)

Cas Mudde is Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, USA, and Researcher in the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Definitions: the various shades of the US far right

2. A short history of the far right in America

3. The Tea Party paradox

4. Wisconsin's Sikh massacre: the real danger

5. America's new revolutionaries

6. America's election and the Tea Party

7. Is the Revolution eating its children? The US Tea Party, between AstroTurf and grassroots

8. The Green Scare: Why Islamophobia is the new Red Scare

9. The Trump phenomenon and the European populist radical right

10. The power of populism? Not really!

11. Is the GOP a radical right party?

12. Will Donald Trump transform the (far) right in the US?

13. Trump: The Great White Hope

14. A Talk with Cas Mudde on American and European populism

15. The far right has arrived... and it could take Washington!

16. The revenge of the losers of globalization? Brexit, Trump and globalization

17. Stop using the term alt-right'!

18. Why is American political science blind on the right eye?

19. Did Trump really hijack the GOP?

20. The latest Trump (and GOP and media) fiasco in nine points

21. Brexit, Trump, and five (wrong) lessons about 'the populist challenge'

22. Keeping it real in Trump's America

23. The far right in a Trump world

24. Donald Trump is an American original

25. Trumpism: normal pathology or pathological normalcy?

26. Donald Trump and the silent counter-revolution

27. What's the matter with America? Trump and the multidimensionality of politics

28. Did Trump prove US political science wrong?

29. The politics of nostalgia

30. 2016 and the five stages of liberal denial

31. We are thinking about populism wrong. And it's costing us

32. The Trump presidency: the radical right in power?

33. What to read on Trump(ism)

Bibliography

Additional information

NLS9781138063891
9781138063891
1138063894
The Far Right in America by Cas Mudde (University of Georgia, USA)
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2017-09-22
132
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