I don't know, places like Switzerland certainly make me wish we had some of those aspects in my home country. For things with a lot of special interests like privacy legislation, it seems to get better results.
... we are also more capable ourselves, and capable of dealing with greater amounts of information - that famous 1800's vs now information consumption stat ...
Or, perhaps, tech could help us "digest" and process that complexity ...
... though witnessing recent "disinformation management failures" - to put it mildly - does not point to much hope in that regard, to be exact ...)