@Holiday20310401,
Democracy is a much more down to earth concept than most idealists would have it. It is no more than a partially successful method for putting the highest authority at the lowest level.
A truer form of democracy is IMHO only achievable through the instrument of a referendum.
Why do I think democracy is a superior system from the social POV? Well, I am a believer in the potentially beneficial effects of complex systems with their emergent properties.
Instituting a democratic system vastly increases the potential number of decision-making interactions and events thus increasing the complexity of the system. It will give said system more options for change and more degrees of freedom. It will be less predictable.
I have come across ecological theories which claim that all ecosystems will strive to increase their complexity to the maximum amount possible, just before the point of falling into chaos.
I can see parallels in society and in the political system. It is trying to become more complicated. Witness also the increase in the number of supranational entities.