The failure modes of "democracy", from people who actually know what they're talking about.
That'd be me. First, by way of intro :
mircea_popescu Back to that "you have no rights" Fisher quote for a second : it splendidly illustrates the difference between democracy and republic, and why La Serenissima is not a democracy, and why no democracy can be anything but "a popular democracy", as in the popular democratic republic of .i
decimation "So, what that means is, this is actually terrifying. Democracy is radically indeterminate. The outcome can be manipulated. But that manipulation will not be apparent to people unless they have seen this technical result. Which means that you sort of--you can have shamans, people who know the rules, be in charge in ways that are tantamount to dictatorship. So, we should be very skeptical about claims that 'this is what the people want.'" via http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/02/michael_munger_1.html
decimation ^ The 'result' is simply that outcomes are not process-neutral, so manipulation of 'voting rules' manipulates outcomes. thus, dictatorship by process, ie USG.
asciilifeform Manipulation of 'voting rules' manipulates outcomes
Monday, 06 April, Year 7 d.Tr.