Talk:Single-issue politics

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Should this be renamed single issued parties that only care for one useless mindless waste of our time issue (with hyphen) in the manner of Single-issue party? A quick Google search didn't reveal whether the hyphen is preferred in this particular case, but according to the entry for hyphen, "[W]hen a compound modifier appears before a term, the compound modifier is generally hyphenated in order to prevent any possible misunderstanding, such as light-blue paint..." - 216.61.33.185 16:40, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * An old comment, but still. "single issued parties that only care for one useless mindless waste of our time issue"? You said it, brother! Like those stupid abolitionists, what with their useless mindless waste of time political activities. -BaronGrackle 19:29, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

This article is very weak and out of date. by Phlerbert (talk) 13:45, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Firstly there is confusion between single issue politics and single issue parties.

Much political activity outside of party's is focussed on single issues - this is why we have civil society campaign groups. Politics works by focussing on single issues by campaign groups, vested interests or stakeholders.

Indeed the article does launch straight into discussing parties! There is no discussion on why sometimes campaigners form a single issue party. In many cases this is because it's a useful vehicle for promotion of the issue since many democratic countries afford political parties access to the media and election leaflet deliveries. Threshold PR systems often get such groups into legislatures therby further raising the profile of the issue.

'Single issue' can be used perjoratively by opposing political forces. Thus Green Parties are so labelled by their opponents. However since their inception they have sought to elevate the status of environment by social and economic reforms, as per accepted sustainability defintions such as Brundlandt or triple bottom line or capitals.

I propose to remove Green Parties from this definition as it is oppositional and does not reflect their broad political programme in the economic and social realm.

To update this Pirate Parties, focussed on copyright should be added. In the UK we have a single issue parties focussed on saving the National Health Service (NHS). Phlerbert (talk) 13:43, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Referendum Party
Should the Referendum Party be mentioned in the section on single-issue parties?Vorbee (talk) 19:38, 30 August 2019 (UTC)