Symbol politics

Symbol politics denotes a politics based on gestures . It does not directly change the concrete situation or the concrete problem, but is intended to provoke certain reactions. One of the best-known examples of symbolic politics is the kneeling in Warsaw of former Chancellor Willy Brandt , who asks Poland for forgiveness for the German crimes during World War II .

Examples of symbolic politics

• War guilt issue
• Warsaw kneel down
• resignation

literature

• Bernd Hansjürgens , Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff (ed.): Symbolic environmental policy. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-518-29086-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Definition of symbolic politics ( Memento of April 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 6, 2013
2. ↑ Jens Jessen: Symbolic Politics - Essay , Federal Agency for Political Education / bpb, May 12, 2006.