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Governed Inattention: How Scarcity Silences Politics, Volume II
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 19 2026
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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This book delivers the empirical reckoning promised by its predecessor. Across eight cases - spanning Vietnam, Turkey, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Russia, and the United States - it tests and extends the theory of governed inattention: the claim that administered scarcity systematically consumes the political bandwidth of those it affects, producing quiescence not through repression or ideology alone, but through the structural exhaustion of capacity.
The comparative evidence confirms the theory's central mechanism across radically different regime types and forms of shortage. But it also reveals something the original framework did not fully anticipate: that the durability of scarcity governance depends less on coercion than on naturalisation - the degree to which engineered shortage can be made to appear structural, technical, or inevitable. Russia and Turkey emerge as the most sophisticated cases of this architecture; Zimbabwe and Venezuela as cases where naturalisation failed, producing collapse without transformation.
The book traces how the breadth of scarcity beneficiary networks predicts the resilience of governing equilibria to political challenge, and how scarcity architectures can precede and enable democratic backsliding rather than merely accompany it. It also addresses a structural gap in the original theory - the disproportionate concentration of shortage-management labour on women, and its implications for the unequal distribution of political bandwidth.
The concluding assessment of transition pathways is sobering. Overshoot produces opportunity without transformation; reframing succeeds only under specific conjunctural conditions; and not one of the eight cases shows a successful transition through the institutional restoration of political capacity. The consistent finding is that acute mobilisation without organisational infrastructure produces the cycle of crisis and demobilisation that Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Ukraine each document in different registers. The distribution of cognitive and material resources, this book argues, is not a background condition of politics. It is politics.
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