I'd think so, except for the inefficiency of bureaucracy.
   Can't think of a stable government that doesn't also have mazes
   designed not only to keep people from excess growth, but also
   keeps powers in certain pockets here and there, to eliminate the
   possibility of any one small group of people gaining absolute,
   unbridled authority.
   Why?
   Those governments which *didn't* have "red tape" built-in to the
   scheme of government constantly fall apart over and over again.
   So, I'm not worried.
   They make it hard for each other to run the government so that
   someone's insane cousin Billy (or Cheng-Zhu) won't
   accidentally/purposely wreck everything.

   Even in stable dictatorships, they're surrounded by advisors who
   hide information from the dictator, so they can keep their bits
   of power and they function as their own kind of
   checks-and-balances system.