We generally see Plato as being anti-democracy, preferring oligarchy. in the third book of The Laws he sounds more balanced. But then, he may have seen oligarchy as the "measure" of both.
"Hear
me, then: there are two mother forms of states from which the
rest may be truly said to be derived; and one of them may be
called monarchy and the other democracy: the Persians have the highest form of the one, and we of the other; almost all the rest, as I
was saying, are variations of these. Now, if you are to have
liberty and the combination of friendship with wisdom, you must
have both these forms of government in a measure; the argument
emphatically declares that no city can be well governed which
is not made up of both."
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