New Politics

American  

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.

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Etymology

Origin of New Politics

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Mr. Schlossberg’s campaign displays aristocratic pretensions that fit uneasily into this new politics.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s not that Cuomo lost two winnable races because he lacked digital mojo—it’s that he was too arrogant to gauge the new politics of the age, too visibly hostile and entitled to not remind everyday New Yorkers of their worst impressions of him.

From Slate

The pact, known as the Bute House Agreement, was born in the first minister's official residence in Edinburgh in 2021 amidst promises of a new politics of co-operation and collaboration.

From BBC

He has been endorsed by the liberal political action committee VoteVets and the bipartisan recruiting organization New Politics, which helps former members of the military and national service organizations run for office.

From Los Angeles Times

But after decades of imprisonment, Mr. Shih was not always at home in Taiwan’s new politics.

From New York Times