Democracy. Atleast make collective choices the right way. Democracy in the sense of everybody voting but not in the UK government sense where you elect a leader. Here we have no leader, everybody decides on everything.
although the UK and USA have leaders, your comments are flawed. in the UK most laws go through a process of being briefed in the halls of parliament firstly by the 'house of commons' which is basically the members of parliament and then by the 'house of lords' so most laws have to be agreed by a multitude of people before being signed off officially as being law.
the problem is not to do with who makes the law, its about bribery.
did you know in 2012 there were flights paid for using the governments stationary budget. these flights are not suppose to be first class. but infact were. the total sum of these flight procurements amounted to £77MILLION pounds and which when digging deeper into the numbers was 10x the amount of the same flight booked from standard travel agents.
the destinations, you would think would be international trading partners... but no. the destinations in over 80% were exotic islands, las vegas, and other 'resort' based destinations.
so how does one get a law passed without there being one single entity in power, but a group? simple.. send the main group of people that turn up to parliament meetings on exotic holidays, all inclusive and with expenses included. and then word the law in such a mystic way that it sounds morally useful to have.
so how does one get a law passed without there being one single entity in power, but an entire nation voting? simple... look at at the demograph of the population and find those critically large groups of people. word a law that sounds morally useful to them, and a few of the other minority demographs and have it mystically intangled with the true purpose law you seek.
EG.
minimum wage: every employee is by law entitled to a minimum wage of £6.20, sounds great yea, now that makes everyone think that they wont be treated as slaves being paid £1 an hour... the mystic part.. well now everyone in the nation has to, by law be paid in pounds, not favours, not chickens, not holidays..not bitcoins. (unless they are perks/bonuses ontop of standard wage)