Unfortunately, taking many 'democratic' countries as an example I see that this is usually not enough to form 'humanistic socially oriented national policy'. Nearly every country in the world is a democracy now, but where do we see 'humanistic and socially oriented national policy'? Only in a select few (the most wealthy ones).
Let's then take Brunei, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabya - the absolute monarchies. In many ways, these 'dictatorships' provide better and more humanistic national policies than their democratic counterparts.