(politics) A 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 along racial, regional, or other demographic lines.

The gender-based motivations and behavioral tactics present in the interactions between men and women, especially as involving manipulation and rivalry for power.

(politics) Politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings, such as ethnicity, race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.

(historical, 1950s, US, politics) The ideology of the U.S. Democratic Party during the 1950s.

The political strategy of engaging with small groups of individuals in face-to-face interactions.

Attempts 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.

(derogatory) A style of politics that evades rather than addresses problems; ostrichism.

Politics concerned with the well-being of the citizens.

Politics concerned with the survival of the state.

(intransitive, idiomatic, derogatory) to act or say something according to political ambition, self-interest, and gamesmanship instead of moral conviction and altruism; to politick