To a lesser extent, western democracy has a similar problem. Our politicians are spending more time on being and staying elected than actually solving problems.

I have written an eight-part series on this matter.

https://medium.com/tiered-democratic-governance/politics-vs-governance-part-1-4846e0966017

We need to move to a system where our elected representatives are mostly working on the problems, which would include a fair amount of study. But when they have to be on the hustings, that study is not likely to happen.