So here we are again, in the midst of the gaudiest, most inefficient rite of democracy on earth, fought under rules laid down almost 230 years ago but in which, in practice, anything goes.
And for this reason, among others, refining and perfecting the mechanics of voting seems like an inefficient way to improve democracy.
Nevertheless, the RNE's program stated that conventional democracy was inefficient, and it called for an "ethnic democracy" in which the right to vote would be restricted to those who had demonstrated their loyalty to the nation.
The central idea, he said, is that "liberal democracy is corrupt, inefficient, chaotic and, ultimately, not democratic".
Moreover, at the same time, countries new to democracy, characterized by inefficient institutions and possibly on the process of establishing IOS characteristics, might exhibit a positive (negative) relationship respectively, as it takes time to build an insider outsider society once democracy is established.
It is also, like democracy itself, loose, shaggy, and inefficient, full of redundancies and conflicting goals.
It is fallible, inefficient and unfair in many ways but democracy is not efficient, and not streamlined and unfairness can be tackled - as it is being tackled now.
Britain has had "rather a good 60 years", transforming itself from an inefficient imperialist manufacturer into a wealthier social democracy selling mainly services.
The uncomfortable fact is that much of Islam is about to enter a period of political upheaval.Too many Muslim countries are non-democracies, and too many of these non-democracies have governments that combine being inefficient and unpopular with not really having a grip on the places they supposedly rule.
"Democracies are cast as sclerotic, inefficient, and ungovernable".
