Preach it brother.
Story of graft is as old as history.
But somehow I'm optimistic. Management and governance are technologies too. (h/t Peter Drucker) We can do better. We will do better.
How do we incentive desired outcomes? Ensure feed back loops are working? Thwart conflicts of interest? Try out new ideas, run experiments? Share best practices?
I've been wandering around for 20 years, hoping to meet other people (locally) who apply Drucker, Deming, Everett Rogers, etc. paradigms to policy nuts and bolts. Something like this, but for the close combat of actual work:
https://ssir.org/issue/winter_2021
I've started to read about participatory democracy (h/t David Graeber), but have yet to find people applying those strategies at work.
Last week, my politic & policy bestie turned me onto holocracy. I'm still chewing on it, am rather skeptical tbh, so won't share any links.
Meanwhile, we don't need to fix any and everything. It's enough to make some improvements, lick our wounds, and then do it all again.