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 elite opinion formation, party organization and party systems, extremist political movements, 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, or will appear, in
Comparative Politics, German Politics and Society, Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Party
Politics. Art is also the Convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research’s (ECPR) Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy.
Prof. Art's Curriculum Vitae
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