Democracy is more of a culture than a way of governing or a political system. It is a historical process that must go through its evolution. No country can be a quasi democracy. It is in fact democratic people that make a society democratic, says Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi
Read her article at the link below.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/shirin-ebadi/framework-of-democracy-is-human-rights-law