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  • adjective After the end of traditional politics.

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post- +‎ political

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Examples

  • The United States represented power; Europe represented a postpolitical, pacifistic “paradise.”

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • The United States represented power; Europe represented a postpolitical, pacifistic “paradise.”

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • I could not conceive of him saying, “Our generation has an obligation to use these new forms of communication to create a common mind-set that can bridge the chasm between the failed orders of market capitalism and totalitarianism and the coming age of postpolitical ecumenicism.”

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • My young daughters have helped me to place the getting-and-spending of my postpolitical life into context.

    EVERY OTHER MONDAY JOHN KASICH 2010

  • I could not conceive of him saying, “Our generation has an obligation to use these new forms of communication to create a common mind-set that can bridge the chasm between the failed orders of market capitalism and totalitarianism and the coming age of postpolitical ecumenicism.”

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • I could not conceive of him saying, “Our generation has an obligation to use these new forms of communication to create a common mind-set that can bridge the chasm between the failed orders of market capitalism and totalitarianism and the coming age of postpolitical ecumenicism.”

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Restrictions on bribery of officials, on contributions to political campaigns, on postpolitical employment, and on the awarding of gifts or preferment are all attempts to place frictions on the free exchange of resources between the economic and political sectors.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Restrictions on bribery of officials, on contributions to political campaigns, on postpolitical employment, and on the awarding of gifts or preferment are all attempts to place frictions on the free exchange of resources between the economic and political sectors.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Restrictions on bribery of officials, on contributions to political campaigns, on postpolitical employment, and on the awarding of gifts or preferment are all attempts to place frictions on the free exchange of resources between the economic and political sectors.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Jason at postpolitical and I often get into testy email arguments about Barack Obama's alleged

    A Second Hand Conjecture » Around the Web 2008

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