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Swedish translation: splittrande fråga

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English term or phrase:	wedge issue
Swedish translation:	splittrande fråga

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14:54 Dec 18, 2008

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Social Sciences - Government / Politics

English term or phrase: wedge issue

Definition from The Washington Post:
A controversial political issue that is often used by one group to divide an opposing political group. The first group hopes that by persuading voters to see the divisiveness among its opponent, voters will agree with its own stance.

Example sentence(s):

The whole point of the “Yes We Can” message was to say, let’s move past the politics of divisive wedge issues and work together to solve the real problems challenging American families. Southern Beale
These battles have been relegated to the back pages of the national papers and hardly covered at all on national television because the protection of marriage is often called a “wedge issue. Townhall.com
Republicans and Democrats have taken turns blaming election losses on wedge-issue ballot initiatives. THE HILL

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splittrande fråga

Definition:
En splittrande fråga (även splittringsfråga) är en kontroversiell fråga som delar annars enhetliga grupper, t.ex. anhängare av ett politiskt parti, religiöst samfund eller liknande.

SAOB: Splittra v.
4b - En enhet av människor delas eller söndras i olika grupper efter åsikter, eller därav följande indelning i politiska eller religiösa fraktioner, partier o.dyl.
Adj. splittrande
sms. splittrings-
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splittrande fråga

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splittrande fråga

Definition from own experience or research:
En splittrande fråga (även splittringsfråga) är en kontroversiell fråga som delar annars enhetliga grupper, t.ex. anhängare av ett politiskt parti, religiöst samfund eller liknande.

SAOB: Splittra v.
4b - En enhet av människor delas eller söndras i olika grupper efter åsikter, eller därav följande indelning i politiska eller religiösa fraktioner, partier o.dyl.
Adj. splittrande
sms. splittrings-
http://g3.spraakdata.gu.se/saob/index.html

Example sentence(s):

Invandring är en känsloladdad och splittrande fråga. Invandring ses av en del européer som ett hot mot den nationella identiteten, medan andra välkomnar den som en källa till kulturell mångfald. - Europaparlamentet
Demokraterna förlorade amerikanska presidentvalet på moralfrågorna. Nu öppnar de för diskussion om abortfrågan. Hilary Clinton gav sig in i debatten för några veckor sedan när hon talade om en ”gemensam grund”. Betyder det att demokraterna är på väg att retirera i USA:s mest splittrande fråga? - Riksförbundet för sexuell upplysning
Statsministern har haft en minst sagt njugg inställning till detta och från att ha varit en pyrande splittrande fråga i regeringssamarbetet under lång tid uppstod uppenbara stridigheter om skattelättnaderna i september. - Exportrådet

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