WordNet
n. a group of people working together to achieve a political goal
Wikipedia
In the social sciences, a political movement is a social group that operates together to obtain a political goal, on a local, regional, national, or international scope. Political movements develop, coordinate, promulgate, revise, amend, interpret, and produce materials that are intended to address the goals of the base of the movement. A social movement in the area of politics can be organized around a single issue or set of issues, or around a set of shared concerns of a social group. In a political party, a political organization seeks to influence, or control, government policy, usually by nominating their candidates and seating candidates in political and government offices. Additionally, parties participate in electoral campaigns and educational outreach or protest actions aiming to convince citizens or governments to take action on the issues and concerns which are the focus of the movement. Parties often espouse an ideology, expressed in a party program, bolstered by a written platform with specific goals, forming a coalition among disparate interests.
Usage examples of "political movement".
The Falun Gong group hadn't even been a religion at all, not to Nomuri's way of thinking, but for some reason he didn't fully understand, it had frightened the powers that be in the PRC enough to crack down on it as if it had been a genuinely counterrevolutionary political movement.
A powerful new friend, a new fad or idea, a new political movement, some new hero rising from the depths of the mass media--all these strike us with particular force at such a moment.
Pacifism is a psychological curiosity rather than a political movement.
Since the Renaissance, it has always been cautiously last to join that political movement which could serve its purpose at the time.
Whitlock, he's been careful, there's no evidence to connect him or his political movement with any of this.
Further, not since the crushing of Shi'a tribal rebellions in the 1930s has a serious religious or political movement emerged among the Shi'a to press for such demands.
A kind of vague umbrella term for those sympathetic to the underground, but not followers of any more specific political movement or philosophy.
So under the radarunseen by the Israeli authoritieshe'd begun secretly recruiting a political movement who agreed.
But the proletariat, as yet in its infancy, offers to them the spectacle of a class without any historical initiative or any independent political movement.