If we look at the history some countries got maximum development in Dictator ship while some got maximum development in democratic government. Every system has it's own flaws and benefits. What do you like ? if we talk about the welfare of general people.
The thing about democracy is it is often abused by the people. It is said that in democracy the people governs the country, however, most ineffective and poor countries have democracy.
Democracy is still dictatorship with a few twists. Why? Because:
1. The majority rules, which means the majority is dictator over the minority;
2. The majority simply decides who the popular leaders will be;
3. Then the leaders make their rulings and laws and statutes;
4. Then the leaders turn the responsibility of turning the rulings, laws, and statutes into codes, which are interpretations made by the code writers;
5. Then the enforcers interpret the codes even differently, in whatever ways they feel they want to.
The enforcers are the cops and judges in the courts, and usually the lower courts. The way they interpret may not at all be the way that the winning majority wanted in the first place, or even what the popular leaders thought they had passed into law.
The result is that we have an anarchistic dictatorship. The cops and judges are the dictators.