gesture politics
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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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The first known use of gesture politics was in 1971
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