Ehm, I don't consider "social scientists" to be scientists. Hell, not even psychology and experimental economics should be qualified as a "science." But that is besides the point, I'm not a positivist.
Anyway, democracy is a utopian political system, and it only makes sense that it doesn't exist in the real world. Democracy as a means to structure organizations on the other hand is very functional, but only in certain instances. To have it in all areas is silly and utopian. For instance, in economics democracy is an inefficient means of information transfer when compared to prices. Prices reflect social value more frequently and efficiently than democratic voting. That's the economic calculation problem. Representative democracy is just as utopian, because it reduces the identity of individuals into that of large groups of individuals based on their geographic location.
The ideal of a government that is not hierarchical is a utopian concept. By its nature, government will be hierarchical. You are given a few the power to rule over the many, regardless of whether or not you approved of their existence (more often not) by voting. The only way to give more relative power to common people is by reducing government as much as possible. When one creates a government, one is only creating another means by which the powerful can dominate those who are not powerful - the political process.
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