But first in Denmark, then in the Netherlands, and now in Sweden,
illiberal, populist parties stirring up fear of immigrants - specifically Muslim immigrants - have managed to gain enough power to set, or at least influence, their countries' political agendas.
My own experience visiting Slovakia during June's parliamentary elections cast doubt on the notion that economic reforms were the chief reason for the
illiberal backlash.
Leader Sir Menzies Campbell unveiled a "freedom Bill" alongside plans to make it easier to repeal Acts considered unnecessary or
illiberal.
The decision has been hailed by health campaigners and anti-smoking groups as the biggest lifesaver for half a century but pro-smoking groups branded the new legislation as "unnecessary and
illiberal".
He was to accuse Mr Blair of "playing politics" in his response to the July 7 bombs in London, by bringing forward
illiberal legislative proposals without consulting opposition leaders.
Carmarthen-based Christian Voice branded the Government's proposals to outlaw religious hatred as an '
illiberal' measure which risked leaving people from different faiths 'at each others' throats'.
State bureaucracies in Germany (and France) are the most
illiberal in the world.
The Commission said the
illiberal deal was agreed "in view of the political situation prevailing in Belarus", where President Alexander Lukashenko maintains a harsh intolerant regime.
Illiberal states, such as the former USSR, are not usually concerned with legal niceties.
Carducci's achievement is as impressive as it is unlikely: he has managed to write a thoroughly plausible explication of rock's power from an
illiberal, populist perspective.
Spencer stresses the political function of policing within an
illiberal and authoritarian Prussia.
Approving reviewing Dinesh D'Souza's vitriolic attack on the universities,
Illiberal Education, in The New Republic, Eugerte Genovese describes a politically correct cabal of Marxist poststructuralists and unspecified others as front men on campus for a new McCarthyism and calls for counterterrorists to "draw their blood" and make them "suffer hard blows." Wow!
Hamid Ansari has said that India is feared to be turned into an
illiberal, majoritarian democracy where religious minorities would not be equal citizens but"on sufferance"and underlined that democratic institutions have been"eroded very seriously"in the country.
'The Philippines, under the leadership of President Duterte, is turning rapidly into an
illiberal state, where there is no respect for the law whatsoever,' Van said in a statement issued in London by Liberal International.