The Beautiful Game and the Fragile Democracy - with Political Scientist Cas Mudde
About this episode
The episode features political scientist Cas Mudde discussing the intersection of soccer and fragile democracies.
Today's assistant professor has spent his career studying the forces that threaten liberal democracy — the far right, populism, nationalist movements that have reshaped politics from Hungary to the United States. He's one of the most cited political scientists working on those questions, based at the University of Georgia, originally from the Netherlands, and the kind of scholar who combines rigorous theory with an unusually grounded sense of how politics actually lives in people's lives. But...
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