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fringe parties  

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  • There is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes a fringe party. Fringe party is mostly used by journalists, politicians, and political scientists as a pejorative term to demarcate the boundary between “reasonable politics” and the “lunatic fringe,” a label famously applied by Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography (1922) to describe “the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a [reform] movement and always discrediting it.” Consequently, some political scientists have argued that the term should best be replaced by more neutral expressions, such as marginal parties, nonestablished parties, or nonmainstream parties. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Fringe Parties]

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