nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/b3af9ad57d836ac3 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 261102s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/b3af9ad57d836ac3 doi eng 342 23 Elbasyouny, Ahmed Author aut Usual Suspects - Militant Democracy’s Party Problem Elbasyouny, Ahmed Verfassungsblog 2026-11-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Global South Militant Democracy party-centrism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/usual-suspects/ raw object