metapoliticsn.

1784 J. L. De Lolme Constit. Eng. (ed. 4) ii. xvii. 419 (note) It may, if the reader pleases, belong to the Science of Metapolitics, in the same sense as we say Metaphysics.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend I. iii. iii. 309 As ‘Metaphysics’ are the science which determines what can, and what can not, be known of Being..so might the philosophy of Rousseau and his followers not inaptly be entitled, Metapolitics, and the Doctors of this School, Metapoliticians.

1870 Galaxy June 844 The present legal or political position of women..prevents their learning Greek and Latin, physics and metaphysics, politics and metapolitics.

1915 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 9 710 This individualism underlying the early ‘Jeffersonian metapolitics’ has often been misconstrued as destructive from the first of respect and admiration for the Constitution as a political document.

1971 A. J. Gregor (title) An introduction to metapolitics: a brief inquiry into the conceptual language of political science.

1987 New Statesman 18 Dec. 21/3 Ordinary voters have been bored to tears by the arcane meta-politics around which the merger negotiations have necessarily revolved.