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The niche party concept and its measurement
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Abstract The concept of the niche party has become increasingly popular in analyses of party competition. Yet, existing approaches vary in their definitions and their measurement approaches. We propose using a minimal definition that allows us to compare political parties in terms of their ‘nicheness’. We ar... mehr
The concept of the niche party has become increasingly popular in analyses of party competition. Yet, existing approaches vary in their definitions and their measurement approaches. We propose using a minimal definition that allows us to compare political parties in terms of their ‘nicheness’. We argue that the conceptual core of the niche party concept is based on issue emphasis and that a niche party emphasizes policy areas neglected by its rivals. Based on this definition, we propose a continuous measure that allows for more fine-grained measurement of a party’s ‘nicheness’ than the dominant, dichotomous approaches and thereby limits the risk of measurement error. Drawing on data collected by the Comparative Manifesto Project, we show that (1) our measure has high face validity and (2) exposes differences among parties that are not captured by alternative, static or dichotomous measures.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Volkspartei; politische Ideologie; Definition; Parteipolitik; Klassifikation; politisches Programm; Messung; Validierung
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Issue competition; issue salience; mainstream parties; niche parties
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 259-271
Zeitschriftentitel
Party Politics, 21 (2015) 2
ISSN
1460-3683
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)