>Diffusion of responsibility [1]. And it's a feature not a bug. The government doesn't want concentrated responsibility because that concentrates accountabili

>Diffusion of responsibility [1]. And it's a feature not a bug. The government doesn't want concentrated responsibility because that concentrates accountability. Concentrated accountability reduces the power to screw people as much/often because if responsibility is concentrated then the task of holding people accountable is much more tractable. One bad man can be removed from power with one election, one prosecution and jail sentence, one bullet. You can't get rid of an entire misbehaving department so easily and it's even harder when most of them are "just doing their jobs" most of the time and it's the sum total of their jobs that's causing harm. Having ineffective governing bodies and government departments that harbor abuse and do their jobs sloppily is just part of the tradeoff.