gesture politics
noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction
: 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
Frances Heidensohn, in Social Issues and Party Politics, 1998
Word History
First Known Use
1971, in the meaning defined above
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