Less democratic forms usually include economic means that are based on a command market system. Command markets are opposite of the free market systems and in a command system a government can choose what will be made and what sold and at what prices and this is usually useful for solving things like economic crises.
During great depression some people turn towards less Democratic to solve the economic crisis like they turn toward command economy from free economy to curb the economic crisis.
Explanation:
The great depression was ended and the prosperity restored only after the sharp reduction in taxes, spending, regulation till the end of world war II.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New deal used government programs to help the nation recovering from the great depression.
The government created jobs by building new projects like roads, buildings, and Dams.
Businessmen and farmers got help from the government.
Slowly the economy becomes better until the advance of World War II.
