The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political party threat.
Recent years have witnessed the rise of a range of authoritarian populist, illiberal, far-right,
nativist, and extremist parties. Some have entered government in countries including
Hungary, Poland, Austria, and Italy. Germany's Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) is now the
main parliamentary opposition. Beyond Europe we see democratic structures threatened or
incrementally dismantled through the subversion of an established democratic party by an …