The phrase "a divisive policy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a policy that causes disagreement or division among people or groups.
Example: "The government's decision to implement a divisive policy has sparked protests across the nation."
Alternatives: "a controversial policy" or "a polarizing policy".
"It's a divisive policy and this cull is splintering communities".
Furthermore, New England Federalists adopted a divisive policy of sectionalism, moving dangerously near secession in 1808 and strenuously opposing the War of 1812 (see Hartford Convention).
In a recent study published in the journal Political Behavior, participants were given a list of ways to address a divisive policy issue, such as immigration.
While agriculture is an integral part of these agreements, its treatment in RTAs has been a divisive policy issue.
It has become a hugely divisive policy issue in recent years, gaining a new urgency, perhaps, by the recent hurricanes that slammed into the Gulf Coast.
Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said that the visit "could not possibly occur while a cruel and divisive policy which discriminates against citizens of the host nation is in place," the Telegraph reported.
The significant number of Democratic votes the bill attracted could make it difficult to strip from a larger bill jam-packed with divisive policy provisions.
But the economy didn't rebound, and Mr. Obama, beset by crises and absorbed in negotiations on Capitol Hill, never did get around to making a sustained public argument for his most divisive policy choices.
Abe's push to give Japanese troops a wider international role has proved the most divisive policy of his three years in office.
She looked into that camera in Downing Street and she said, I know how you're suffering, and I thought 'wow'; but now just a few weeks later she's proposing the most divisive policy possible," Rayner said.
Declaring that the nation was at "a moment of reckoning," Mrs. Clinton, 68, urged voters to reject the divisive policy ideas and combative politics of the Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump.
