Enlightened dictatorships and associated authoritarian measures can work extremely well but with the risk that things go for the worse when the leadership goes

Enlightened dictatorships and associated authoritarian measures can work extremely well but with the risk that things go for the worse when the leadership goes mad, corrupt or impotent. They are efficient but fragile systems. Democracies and associated soft policies are less efficient at solving problems and might not work at all if the society is too corrupt but seem to be more robust long term.