"parish pump politics" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1875, Thomas Bardel Brindley, Hints, Humorous and Satirical, to all the world and his wife (Wit and humor), Simpkin, Marshall&Company, page 6:",
          "text": "7.—Never avoid bars or smoke-rooms, because in the former case you miss the chance of marrying a flirt, and in the latter of having your mind improved by local parish-pump politics, and your head broken by a fool in his cups.",
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        {
          "ref": "1981, Electoral Politics in Ireland: Party and Parish Pump, page 144:",
          "text": "Unfortunately, the parish-pump politics this perpetuates is congenitally unsuited to deal with the demands of a modern European society.",
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          "ref": "2005, Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life, University of Toronto Press:",
          "text": "Where others looked at Canadian regionalism and saw a fruitful and admirable diversity of human experience, Laskin saw petty fiefdoms, parish pump politics, and constricted horizons.",
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        "political activity that is more evidently concerned with addressing the immediate needs of the local electorate than with strategy that might affect the national interest."
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          "word": "narrow-mindedness"
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        "(Ireland, derogatory, informal) political activity that is more evidently concerned with addressing the immediate needs of the local electorate than with strategy that might affect the national interest."
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          "word": "provincialism"
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          "word": "parochialism"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "mestni interesi",
          "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
          "word": "местни интереси"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
          "word": "siltarumpupolitiikka"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "Provinzialismus"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Engstirnigkeit"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Beschränktheit"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Kirchturmpolitik"
        }
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  "word": "parish pump politics"
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          "text": "7.—Never avoid bars or smoke-rooms, because in the former case you miss the chance of marrying a flirt, and in the latter of having your mind improved by local parish-pump politics, and your head broken by a fool in his cups.",
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          "ref": "1981, Electoral Politics in Ireland: Party and Parish Pump, page 144:",
          "text": "Unfortunately, the parish-pump politics this perpetuates is congenitally unsuited to deal with the demands of a modern European society.",
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        },
        {
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mestni interesi",
      "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
      "word": "местни интереси"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
      "word": "siltarumpupolitiikka"
    },
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      "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
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      "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Beschränktheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "putting local concerns over national interest",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Kirchturmpolitik"
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  "word": "parish pump politics"
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