Operationalizing Niche Parties: Definitional Disagreement and its Implications for Strategic Party Behavior

• In Event: European Political Parties

Brief Overview

This paper explores the variation in the main definitions that scholars have used to identify niche parties, or “nicheness”, and analyzes its implications for the validity of the findings about the appeal and strategic behavior of these parties.

Authors

• Jelle Koedam, University of Zurich

• Ida B Hjermitslev, Duke University