Scientific Definitions
Ethnic party is defined here as an organization authorized to compete in local or national elections; the majority of its leadership and membership identify themselves as belonging to a nondominant ethnic group, and its electoral platform includes demands and programs of an ethnic or cultural nature.
An ethnic party is a party that overtly represents itself as a champion of the cause of one particular ethnic category or set of categories to the exclusion of others, and that makes such a representation central to its strategy of mobilizing voters.
see also a comparison of various definitions in: Maxmilián Strmiska, A Study on Conceptualisation of (Ethno)regional Parties, Central European Political Studies Review (Brno), Part 2-3, Volume IV, spring-summer 2002
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