0 the action of causing something or someone to have no political connections:
Depoliticization of education and of the military would be encouraged.
He pushed for depoliticization and modernization of the military.
The programme included private land ownership and the depoliticisation of the army.
The power drawn from distributive policies has helped to weaken civil society through a process of selective depoliticization (p. 12).
In fact, the conservatism of the nation is being built upon that pessimism and depoliticization.
The explanations or supposed causes of depoliticization are manifold.
The strategy relied on two mutually reinforcing elements: (1) depoliticization and criminalization of racial struggle and (2) racialization of crime.
One consequence of the division of sovereignty is a tendency toward the depoliticization of political issues by trying to remove controversial issues from the political arena.
