I am thinking about alternative form of government too, however we should not forget the famous quote that democracy is the worst form of government.

Pieter Hintjens the ZeroMQ founder wrote the book "The Psychopath Code". I learnt that some bad people are enough to make a community capsize. I am not sure whether this applies to democracies as well. It is a completely different scale from Open Source projects. However I think, this book is very valuable in learning why democracies have enormous difficulties.

I am afraid, however, that the alternatives are even worse.