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Assistant Professor
David Art - Comparative Politics, European Politics

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004

David Art's field is comparative politics, with a regional focus on Europe. His courses include Introduction to Comparative Politics, European Politics, The Politics of European Integration, Globalization, and Fascism and the Far Right. Professor Art's research interests include extremist political parties and movements, the politics of history and memory, and comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. His book The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. His current book project, provisionally titled How Radical Right Parties Organize and under contract with Cambridge University Press, examines why contemporary radical right political parties have done well in some European states and not in others. His articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, German Politics and Society, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Party Politics. Art is Co-Convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research's (ECPR) Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy. During the 2008-2009 academic year, he will be a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute.

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