Phrase Hound found 30 phrases and 40 compound words that contain politics. The most common are listed below. Open politics in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 30
- party politicsPolitics that is dominated by rivalry between political parties
- identity politicsPolitics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings, such as ethnicity, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
- power politicsA form of international relations in which sovereign entities protect their own interests by threatening one another with military, economic or political aggression.
- office politicsactions and behavior that are employed to gain or protect status or resources within an organization
- International Politics
- sexual politicsThe gender-based motivations and behavioral tactics present in the interactions between men and women, especially as involving manipulation and rivalry for power.
- anti-politicsAlternative form of antipolitics: Broad rejection of political institutions and processes.
- high politicsPolitics concerned with the survival of the state.
- low politicsPolitics concerned with the well-being of the citizens.
- machine politicsThe kind of politics that involves a political machine.
- New PoliticsThe ideology of the U.S. Democratic Party during the 1950s.
- retail politicsThe political strategy of engaging with small groups of individuals in face-to-face interactions.
- parish pump politicsPolitical activity that is more evidently concerned with addressing the immediate needs of the local electorate than with strategy that might affect the national interest.
- wedge politicsA strategy or pattern of behavior by a politician, political party, or advocacy group which is intended to have a divisive effect on one's political opponents or on the electorate, especially by emphasizing an issue which polarizes opinion …
- play politicsto act or say something according to political ambition, self-interest, and gamesmanship instead of moral conviction and altruism; to politick
- student union politicsPolitical actions seen as being unprofessional or childish; resembling those of the students' union.
- playing politicspresent participle and gerund of play politics
- palace politicsThe relationships and interactions of top-level officials, advisors and other powerbrokers within a government, especially as involving internal rivalry and intrigue.
- ostrich politicsA style of politics that evades rather than addresses problems; ostrichism.
- played politicssimple past and past participle of play politics
- all politics is localUltimately, constituents and voters are concerned most about issues that affect their personal lives and home communities, and they vote accordingly.
- respectability politicsAttempts by marginalized groups to police their own members and show their social values as being compatible with mainstream values, rather than challenging the mainstream for its failure to accept difference.
- plays politicsthird-person singular simple present indicative of play politics: to act or say something according to political ambition, self-interest, and gamesmanship instead of moral conviction and altruism; to politick
- vibe politicsA political environment in which people respond primarily to mood, tone, symbolism, tribal identity cues, memes, and general social feeling rather than to any substantive understanding of policy, current events, talking points, or how …
- politics of envyPolitics characterized by envy for a different person or group.
Compound words 40
- geopoliticsThe study of the effects of geography (especially economic geography) on politics and international relations, usually referring to countries and relations between them.
- exopoliticsThe art or science of government as concerned with creating or influencing policy toward extraterrestrial phenomena and extraterrestrial beings.
- politricksPolitical trickery.
- biopoliticsThe interdisciplinary studies relating biology and political science.
- ethnopoliticspolitics as it relates to different ethnic groups
- antipoliticsBroad rejection of political institutions and processes.
- domopoliticsThe governance of a polity as if it were a home.
- parapoliticsPolitical practices and arrangements that are unacknowledged and that intend to misinform or obfuscate a hidden agenda.
- schizopoliticsA pattern of action that undermines the status quo, especially that which causes capital to be spent on actions antithetical to capitalism.
- narcopoliticsThe use of politics to influence or sponsor the illegal drug trade.