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gesture politics

noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction
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Definition of gesture politics

: political actions or statements that are done or made chiefly as symbolic gestures and have little or no practical effect Law and order issues are easily subject to gesture politics, to rhetoric and to simple solutions. — Frances Heidensohn, in Social Issues and Party Politics, 1998

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1971, in the meaning defined above

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“Gesture politics.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gesture%20politics. Accessed 19 Jun. 2021.

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