http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/b3af9ad57d836ac3 https://verfassungsblog.de/usual-suspects/ Usual Suspects - Militant Democracy’s Party Problem Elbasyouny, Ahmed eng 2026-11-02 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Global South Militant Democracy party-centrism Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Thinking reflexively about militant democracy requires us not only to point to party-centrism as a flaw, but to take the opportunity to revisit the doctrine as a whole, particularly since it matters to every democratic society facing anti-democratic threats of various kinds. Below, I trace and define party-centrism and argue more narrowly that moving beyond it is valuable not only because it brings more actors into view, but because it extends to them the same level of protection that parties already receive.