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psychopolitics
psychopolitics n.
Brit. 
/ˌsʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈpɒlᵻtɪks/
, /ˌsʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈpɒlᵻtɪks/U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊˈpɑləˌtɪks/
the interaction between politics or political phenomena and human psychology; (also) the study of this./ˌsaɪkoʊˈpɑləˌtɪks/ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > branches of politics
public policec1450
state police1779
world-policy1848
world politics1857
geopolitics1901
Weltpolitik1903
biopolitics1927
psychopolitics1942
micropolitics1951
agro-politics1960
eco-politics1970
identity politics1973
gender politics1977
1942 I. A. Richards in Fortune Sept. 108/1 Geopolitics, the study of the sources of physical power and their control, has lately made a name for itself... But the parallel and superior study—of the sources of will power and their control—seems so far to enjoy no name of its own... The other study—let us call it psychopolitics—were it also methodized, could easily put geopolitics back in the handmaid's place where it belongs.
1961 Guardian 2 Nov. 8/2 Robert Jungk..wanted to do his thesis on what he called ‘psychopolitics’, the interaction between mass psychology and mass psychology movements and politics.
1980 Boston Globe 3 Feb. b1 Kantor claims that people's current patterns of interaction, or ‘psychopolitics’, are based on ‘critical identity images’.
2000 N.Y. Times 13 July a29/2 Retrospective apologies can be a kind of psychopolitics that makes the apologizer feel good without doing anything concrete about the enduring consequences of past injustices.
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