Non-democracies don't exactly have a great track record of legal nimbleness and enlightened decision making either. The root cause here is ideology, which can

Non-democracies don't exactly have a great track record of legal nimbleness and enlightened decision making either. The root cause here is ideology, which can occur in both democracies and dictatorships. The two are orthogonal - democracies can both regulate and deregulate, as can dictatorships.