Post-politics

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Post-politics is a term in social sciences used to describe the effects of depoliticisation—a move away from the antagonistic political discourse, empowering unelected technocrats with decisions—in the late 20th and early 21st centuries,^[1] when the representative democracies of the post–Cold War era had arguably entered depoliticisation.^[2] Generally related to and used alongside similar terms "post-democracy", the term "post-politics" carries negative connotations of depriving the electorate from voting on issues deemed settled by the elites, while "depoliticisation" is neutral.^{[citation needed]}