Avoidable Collapse: Institutional Fragility and the Political Economy of Delay - Softcover

Hattingh, Allison Irene

 
9798242259539: Avoidable Collapse: Institutional Fragility and the Political Economy of Delay

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Modern societies rarely collapse because solutions are unavailable.
They collapse because decisions are deferred.
In Avoidable Collapse, Allison Irene examines how institutional fragility emerges not through sudden shocks, but through prolonged delay—where political incentives, economic structures, and energy constraints interact to narrow governing capacity over time.
Rather than focusing on moments of crisis, the book traces how capacity is gradually eroded:

  • how dysfunction becomes normalized within institutions
  • how short-term stabilization displaces long-term planning
  • how delay itself evolves into a governing strategy
Situated within political economy and institutional analysis, Avoidable Collapse argues that breakdown is often foreseeable—and preventable—long before it appears inevitable.
This is not a prediction of catastrophe. It is an examination of how constraint, delay, and diminished capacity converge to produce outcomes that later appear unavoidable.

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