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"Institutional incompetence" as a book category focuses on the systemic failures, mismanagement, and ordinary blunders within organizations — governments, corporations, hospitals, schools, militaries, NGOs and other bureaucracies — that produce harmful, costly, or absurd outcomes. These books examine how rules, incentives, poor leadership, siloed thinking, and bad procedures combine to create preventable disasters or chronic dysfunction; they can be investigative exposés, narrative nonfiction case studies, courtroom or policy analyses, or fictional satiric/dark-thriller treatments that dramatize the human cost and cascading consequences of administrative failure. Common elements include whistleblowers, internal reviews, cover-ups, reform attempts, and a focus on accountability (or the lack of it); styles range from rigorous reporting to biting satire, appealing to readers interested in systems thinking, public policy, corporate governance, true crime, and social critique.

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