Most people are living comfortably and would not risk their and their families livelihood to try something new that could turn out to be much worse than democracy. You would need the majority of the country to be living so miserably they would vote for tearing down the current government structure.

@Ray Thanks for responding! That's a valid point, but what about third-world countries where people aren't comfortably living? Like why aren't there any revolutionaries who attempt at creating a different type of governance?

@Aadhavan - That's really a more general question. If the people aren't happy, why don't they revolt in the first place? Whether the intent is to replace the current government with a democracy or someone's idea of a post-democracy system doesn't really matter if both of them are better than what's there now - either there's interest in overturning the current government or there isn't.

@Bobson That's true. And an opinion-based question to you: Do you think there is gonna be anything significantly different from democracy ever likely to develope?

@Aadhavan All governments are somewhere on the spectrum from "one person has all the power" to "everyone has a little power". The specific details vary and are constantly being fiddled with, but pretty much everything is on that line. It's possible there's some combination that's better than current representative democracies, but I don't know what it would be. The only thing that's significantly different that I can think of is "no one has any power", either because they've abdicated it all to computer algorithms, aliens show up and take over, or there are no people left.

@Bobson I think #3 looks really likely with the passing day.

@alephzero: That is too cynical. Not all places are corrupt.

What is "better"? Who gets to decide what "better" is? What problems do you see in democracy as it is currently? You've asked people to fix a problem without stating what the problem is.

What makes a groupof people a "country"? Adams would have considered his country to be Massachusetts.

What are the inefficiencies of democracy with respect to globalisation, technology and access to remote areas?

@Aadhavan how would that government work? I guess you have thought about it and have an idea about it.

You mean alternatives to democracy excluding all of those that have already been tried (and have generally been worse than democracy)? Are you not aware of those, or why do you think an attempt to create yet another one would succeed where those have failed?

@CJDennis Also: better for who? For society as a whole? For those currently in power, or those who would have power under the new system? For large corporations, clerics, organized crime? And what lengths are they willing and able to go to in order to gain or retain power? What alliances are going to emerge? All of this plays a role in who will eventually win that race, and what the resulting system looks like.

Yes, let's all agree to just make everything better! Why didn't anyone think of that before? Brilliant!

@CJDennis One of the problems I see in democracy is corruption and abuse of authority for personal gains, especially by our so-called elected representatives who are supposed to act in the welfare of the people. Also, as I mentioned in the context part, the de-merits are the ones in a typical Grade 10 political science textbook, for example, Majoritarianism, Slow responsiveness, etc. I suppose "better" in the sense of less conflict, more peace, and a "more live and let live" mindset. I apologize, I am unsure on how to respond to your first two questions; They seem a bit rhetorical to me.

@Polygorial I don't have much of an idea actually, I thought one solution would be to give a higher focus on education and employ a direct democracy.

@user149408 Better for society and humanity as a whole.

@NotThatGuy I think a similar question was asked by another commenter in one of the answers below and it seems that I have a bit of a recency bias, so you could say I'm unaware/have an insufficient knowldge of older attempts. I thought that with the rapidly increasing bounds of human knowledge, why weren't there some philosophers who attempt to create a better version of governance than demoracy.

The "slow responsiveness" you talk about is a feature, not a bug. We had a very efficient government here in Germany for about 12 years, who managed to "streamline" education, police, military, industrial production, and pretty much all of society in a very short time. Needless to say, we don't want that to ever happen again, and all the "slowness" and "inefficiency" in our democratic process was deliberately designed as a direct response to the Third Reich.