{
  "id": "voter-fatigue.worn",
  "term": "voter fatigue",
  "sense": "worn",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Members of a collective self reading each new choice of who governs as asking more than it gives, so the more often it comes, the less they act.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "member.social",
      "read.information",
      "new.recent",
      "choice.decision",
      "government.administrative",
      "asks.social",
      "give.transfer",
      "often.temporal",
      "come.arrive",
      "act.deed"
    ],
    "interaction": "Each election asks for attention and action; repeated close together, members read the cost as rising and the reach it gives as falling, and turnout falls with that read.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "consent that thins with repetition",
      "a reach unused because it is offered too often"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Israel held five general elections between April 2019 and November 2022, and voter fatigue was widely discussed in coverage of the later ones.",
      "domain": "politics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "outrage-of-the-week.serial",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "both are wear from repetition; voter fatigue wears out acting, outrage of the week wears out keeping"
    },
    {
      "id": "learned-helplessness.under",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "learned helplessness reads reach as nothing; voter fatigue reads it as not worth the cost"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "election fatigue",
    "electoral fatigue",
    "voter fatigue"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-voter-fatigue.worn"
}