The two virtues of governance are adaptiveness and accountability. These may or may not be satisfied by mechanisms of democracy.
Mechanisms of accountability, including democratic ones, cannot be defined out of the context of the social, cultural and institutional legacies and structures within which they operate. There are multiple models and configurations of political management.
But the optimality of the system depends on its ability to identify problems and address them, while providing checks and accountability.
Conditions which determine the tradeoffs and scope of action which society faces change, as do the values and preferences of populations. This creates continual demand for adaptation of ancillary structures and relationships that constitute a political society. The success or failure of key institutions to adapt, mostly conditioned by human agency, drive systemic stress and change, in Plato’s sense of the word.
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