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Governed Inattention: How Scarcity Silences Politics, Volume I

Governed Inattention: How Scarcity Silences Politics, Volume I

Lutsenko, Dmytro

Paperback

Gifts & Stationery General

ISBN13: 9798257843075
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Why do people who understand that their situation is unjust so often fail to act on that understanding? Why does political quiescence persist in the presence of knowledge, grievance, and formal democratic rights?

This book offers a new answer. Scarcity silences politics not by suppressing speech or distorting belief but by consuming the attention, time, and cognitive capacity that political agency requires. When enough people are preoccupied with obtaining what they need, the questions that would otherwise organise political contestation do not get asked. This condition - governed inattention - is one of the most durable and least theorised mechanisms through which political order is maintained across historical periods and regime types.The argument moves from theory through genealogy to contemporary analysis, anchored throughout by the Soviet case - not because it is exceptional but because it is uniquely transparent.

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