This week our columnist Martin Regnen investigates whether democracies suffer worse from Parkinson's Law:

One of the fundamental laws of bureaucracy, Parkinson's Law states that work expands to fill the time available. It is responsible for a tremendous amount of waste and inefficiency and for the uncontrolled and unnecessary growth of organizations of all kinds. Reflecting on Parkinson's Law recently, I realized that democratic governments should be more vulnerable to it than totalitarian governments.

Is it true? Read his column here: Why Democracy Inevitably Leads to More Bureaucracy