Government is at its core a coercive hegemony which undermines the discretion of individuals to act in accordance to his or her self-interests. There are no "rights" with government; only privileges. Even the process by which governments are selected (democracy, dictatorship, monarchy--which is still a dictatorship, etc) focus on the elimination of individual dissent. Every practice of government therefore is an extension of this undermining if a single individual cannot exit government.
The entire basis (justification), the primary AXIOM of government is (should be, at least hypothetically) to "serve and protect" (by setting policies and enforcing laws that "serve and protect" the interests of its individual citizens).
The "problem" is that every Organization is an Organism. And Organisms are AXIOMATICALLY self-interested and self-protecting.
Self-regulation inevitably results in a conflict-of-interest. The government, cannot be self-regulating. Who watches the watchers?
For example, "The Policeman's Dilemma", which is that, ostensibly, the primary job of a police force is to reduce crime. But if they are successful in reducing crime, their budget and staff are cut proportionately.
HOWeVEr, if crime INCREASES (or the mere threat of and or the general fear of crime increases), then both their budget and staff (and their associated power and influence within the community) INCREASE proportionately.
And as such, they would appear to have inherently contradictory incentives.